Is it possible to have have completely aquacultured themed tank?

zachjohnson65

zachjohnson65

AC Members
Mar 31, 2007
476
0
0
45
Staunton, VA
Is it possible to have have completely aquacultured themed tank? I have been looking into salt and have read about alot of marine fish in the trade are taken from already low stock wild areas. I was thinking of doing an aquacultured livestock. What are my fish choices? I have only seen clowns so far.
 
Are you talking about "tank bred" specimens?There are many fish and corals,as well as live rock that are aquacultured.
 
I guess tank bred that can be bought at a LFS. In my area there are not alot of breeders.
 
Alot more corals are being aquacultured now. I think Live Aquaria online tells you which corals are. Also, for fish I know Cardinals are tank bred as well. I cant think of any other ones of the top of my head, but I think there are alot more. So, yes, it is possible to have an aquacultured tank.
 
I did not see any sand sifting gobies. I was hoping on them.
 
Absolutely. And I think this is a great idea! You may be more limited in your selection but no so much that you couldn't make a crazy cool tank. LR you can get aquacultured, many corals, and a growing number of fish. Can't wait to see what you decide.
 
We considered doing this in a large tank where I work to help promote awareness of aquacultured alternatives to wild caught species, however, the variety of readily available captive bred fish is pretty low. It's definitely very easy to get aquacultured live rock and corals.

After looking into it further, we realized that current technology is really what limits many marine fish from being captively bred on a commercial scale for the hobby. Many marine fish have a planktonic life stage that is difficult to care for in captivity. We were told of a marine angel pair that would regularly breed in captivity in someone's tank locally (no longer remember which species) but the owner has never had a single offspring survive depsite his efforts. I would imagine there are many others seeing the same result. People are definitely trying to captively breed more fish, which is great considering how far those efforts have come in the last decade or so, but as a whole captively breeding marine fish has only limited success.

By all means, do not give up on an all aquacultured marine tank though. Since most of the fish that are captive bred are smaller species, a very nice tank in the 50 gallon range would be cool and very much obtainable.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
AquariaCentral.com
Top Bottom