Captive Bred Fish for a 37gallon reef tk

ner'T' · #1 02-17-2010, 09:26 PM

Thanks SOAPY!

Those are some great/encouraging links!

ner'T' · #2 02-19-2010, 04:47 PM

Any other ideas anyone???

Ron99 · #3 02-19-2010, 04:51 PM

The ORA fish are a good bet as most Canadian LFS can order them. I have an ORA neon dottyback that is a nice looking fish.

ponokareefer · #4 02-19-2010, 05:19 PM

Check out the thread from Blue World Aquatics recently. He brought in Assessors, some types of Blennies, Goby's and Dottybacks that were from ORA. All would work in a 37 gallon tank. You could also look at a lot of different type of cardinal fish, such as the Pajama or Bangaai's, as they are also captive bred sometimes.

soapy · #5 02-19-2010, 05:25 PM

So are you wanting to go captive bred to take it easy on wild caught populations and the reef?

If so one other thing to consider is using:

http://fishbase.org/search.php

to determine how resilient a given species is. If you scroll down on any given fish page you will see resilience comments and vulnerability rating.

Some fish reproduce like rats to fill a niche to capacity in no time and others go really slowly. Your Purple Firefish for instance has a low vulnerability rating of 10 out of 100. So it looks like they are not going to be fished out anytime soon.