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Originally Posted by Warnberg I'm curious, lets say a hobbiest purchases 2 tank raised clowns from their LFS, what do you believe the chances are that these 2 individuals are from the same parents? and do you think that if they are from the same parents would that have any effect on their potential to breed? If this inbreeding is repeated enough times do you think there will be issues in the future with tank raised clowns? |
Chances are pretty good that the clowns are from the same parents if you purchased them at the same time.
But like Reefjitsu said, it really isn't a problem unless the people selling captive raised clowns are inbreeding the fish for many generations. I would be suprised if that happened as it would probably result in lower fecundidty rates as well as a plethora of other problems that would easily be thwarted by increase the genetic diversity in the broodstock by adding a few wild caught clowns.