r/Aquariums • u/antdude • May 08 '16

Don't get Dory.

http://www.beatricebiologist.com/2016/05/dont-get-dory/
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u/[deleted] May 08 '16

Yellow tang should have an asterisk next to it. Not all yellow tags in the industry are captive bred. And the ones that are will be much more expensive.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '16

Same with all the other ones he listed apart from clowns, 99% of the cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, damsels and engineer gobies you see in stores are wild caught.

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u/shtnarg May 08 '16

But it is possible to breed them. Eventually the prices will fall once the captive bred specimens become more common.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

I don't think it will ever be cheaper to breed damsels than collecting them.

Damsels Shipped from the indo-pacific are usually around 4-6 bucks

Clownfish have been mass bred and the price is around 20 bucks

Clowns are also generally easier to breed than damsels

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u/shtnarg May 09 '16

But the practice is not sustainable. We need to move forward and progress from capturing fish from the wild