Rearing post Larval Reef Fish

[jlmvols]

In the 'Marine Fish and Reef 2006 Annual' magazine, there is an interesting article on collecting and rearing post larval reef fish. This collecting method has little impact on reef fishes and can make some fish considered impossible to keep to be more easily kept in the aquarium and fed prepared foods.

http://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/LRF/10/LRF10-10.htm


http://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/LRF/12/LRF12-Lecaillon.pdf

Anyone know how this is going and what, if any, impact it will have the the US marine aquarium market?

 

[AIMFish]

I regularly see fish listed as "aqua cultured" on the instock list from my distributor. I keep meaning to ask but I assumed that it meant that they were caught really young and raised as opposed to being "tank bred", born in captivity. The most recent I have order was a Pomacanthus Maculosus. It is doing real well and it's kinda funny because it's currently smaller than a Centropyge flavicauda, a tank mate, because in the future it will eventually be much bigger than the pygmy

 

[jlmvols]

Do you think it is possible/probable in the near future that they could catch, for example, Moorish Idols in post larval stages, rear these Idols in an aquarium while being fed with standard aquarium food making Idols a common sight in todays marine aquarium?

 

[spawner]

Aquacultured fish should only be defined as fish raised from egg to market size in tanks.

http://www.ecocean.fr/index2.html

That is the commerical website of the company involved in CARE nets that collect newly settled post larvae. The use the term aquariocultured for post larval collection.

They currently catch butterflies that only eat corals as adults and can get them to flake food from the beginning. They market more in the EU than the US, hopefullly we will see more of this type of "fishing"


andy

 

[GreshamH]

They do ship to the US some what. Tthe comapny I used to work for brokerred a shipment of their secret post larval feed for a LFS chain that is selling them. It's not exactly easy to get them off that post larval feed though, they get addicted

I've been considerring doing something similiar with two seperate countries, I'm sure Andy knows which ones

 

[zedx6]

While in the process of setting up my tank I have been doing some research for my stocking list. I decided I wanted to try and stay with tank raised fish but noticed there does not seem to be a lot to choose from but then I came across a site that had several captive reared species also that I am looking into.http://www.inlandaquatics.com/

 

[alikatoes]

Aloha,

I am putting together a proposal to get funded for undergraduate research on this topic. I collect trops in Hawaii, and I have noticed that on night dives all kinds of fish and wierd wiggly things come to the light. Any how, I did a little looking into it and found out about the french doing it in the SP. A friend and I are going to start going out on night trips on my boat and see what type of post larval species we can find and determine if its possible to feed and raise them. I am re designing my holding system to hold both rare species and some post larval rearing. The biggest obstacle to me is live feed. Any suggestions on system design or marketablity in the US? It seems like LPS would love the idea of a more eco friendly trop industry.