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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Re: breeding marine fish
Message-ID: <3766@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 3 May 88 06:08:34 GMT
References: <3021@leo.UUCP> <5305@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <5305@ihlpg.ATT.COM> dalka@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Ken Dalka) writes:
>> so I can't report first hand. But I'm ready as an expectant father. Clowns
>> are so easy, you usually can find tank breed in stores for 4 bucks. I don't
>> think anybody bothers to capture clowns anymore, except for the more rare
>> types.
>
>Ive been told by a local pet shop that ALL marine fish are still caught

As Harals pointed out, we get tank bred clowns down here, almost to the
exclusion of wild clowns.



>in the wild. Some time ago there was a company that breed clowns ( I think
>its aquarium systems, the people who make instant ocean) but were 
>unsuccessful at making money at it. It is easy as you say to breed clowns
>and some other fish but very expensive to rear the young. The right foods
>are difficult to come by in a large commercial environment.

It's no harder to grow marine rotifers than fresh water rotifers.


>(The same pet shop owner has a pair of goby mandarins that spawn monthy
>in the store, but the eggs never hatch or something) So, strangely enough,
>it costs more to rear the young than go out and catch the little buggers.
>I suppose it cant be that hard to catch clowns, after all they just run
>to an anemone where a diver can get both an anemone and the clown(s)
>for the price of one!

Divers. Right.

The reason marine fish are so cheap is they pay third world people
sub slave wages to drug the reefs by throwing cyanide in the water
when they then scoop up the stunned fish and ship'em.

Ask your local dealer if he GUARENTEES his marine fish wern't captured
with drugs. Of all the ads I've seen, only a very few state their
fish were captured without drugs.

Drugged fish has a very small chance of surviving more than 6 mos.
Fish drugged with cyanide will have a greeish, grainy, deteriorated
liver, while healty fishes liver will be the color of "normal"
liver.




-- 
               "Words of wisdom Lloyd, words of wisdom"
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard