Captive bred fish: Please Respond

[Troy F]

Posted by Andrew: If my captive raised Bangaiis were being sold for twice the price of wild caughts, why would anyone (except for ethical type reasons) buy the more expensive ones?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think you pretty much answer the question in your question; for ethical reasons. You (figuratively) may also want to surmise that by buying captive bred fish and corals, you promote those businesses to carry on with their work. If those businesses are unsuccessful there may not be a hobby in the not to distant future.

The fish available at this time are pretty limited and in the case of the dottybacks, don't do much for a community tank (for the most part). However, everyone has clowns and most people have some form or another of goby genuses. There in lies the reason I posted this thread. I'm curious if you as hobbyists would look at captive bred specimens at an inflated price for the eithical reasons.

Tony, you make a great point about inflating the price of wild caught in order to subsidize the captive bred fish. I love that idea. A hefty tax wouldn't be anything new to a Canadian government.