Captive Bred Fish for a 37gallon reef tk

ner'T' · #1 02-17-2010, 06:12 PM

HI,

Looking for ideas for fish in my mixed reef tank. Tank is soft/lPS/SPS and has one purple firefish, (I realize its wild caught...). Other then clowns, I honestly don't know whats out there.

Thanks for any help!

soapy · #2 02-17-2010, 06:42 PM

Ora sells a few captive bred fish:

http://www.orafarm.com/fish.html

Sometimes you will see them in stores.

a couple more links:

http://www.amdareef.com/captive_wholesalers.htm#C-Quest

An interesting forum for people trying to breed marine animals:

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/i...39ef2b3cb2a270

ner'T' · #3 02-17-2010, 09:26 PM

Thanks SOAPY!

Those are some great/encouraging links!

ner'T' · #4 02-19-2010, 04:47 PM

Any other ideas anyone???

Ron99 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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.