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Originally Posted by meandean45 Aha a bite!
firstly, thank you Mike! Secondly, I don't presume to stop anyone from keeping Clowns or any other fish that they like, with or without Anemones. The Black percula is already with us, and seems to be well recieved, but I guess that my real question should be that if the creatures that we keep are the product of thousands of years of natural selection, should we alter that?
As a dealer, you are in a position to sell what you will, and so, if you (and other dealers) decide to only sell tank bred fish, cheaper wild caughts could concievably become a "thing of the past", myself, I'm surprised that wild caughts are still on the market. |
Technically the black perc is a wild morph.
Second I wouldn't really call captive breeding projects altering natural selection as these fish are not being let go into the wild. It's like saying breeding your pet dogs are messing with natural selection.
The ethical issues are simply is it really ok for us to breed clownfish that are short a couple of vertabrae or missing fin rays? don't know the answer, but these guys are going to get bred so I don't know if we really need an answer
BTW, I can tell you one reason wild caughts will remain on the market: price.
I'm competing with a new petco that moved into town that are selling "tank raised" percs (that are all dropping like flies from some type of infection) for $9 each. Don't know where the hell they make money from on that as I purchase my ORA clowns for that much. My wild caught clowns cost about $3-$4. I can compete by selling those if they come in healthy of course. Thanksfully most of my custoemrs that tried out the cheap fish ended up coming back to me anyways after their fish died.
Anyways I'm getting off track....
BTW is that an eclectus in your avatar?