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Originally Posted by reefjitsu  Look at it this way:
These color morphs have a advantage that may allow them to out-survive their wild counterparts. If the coral reefs disappear as predicted, these fish have found a way to survive by being attractive to humans. |
Input from a beginner/bleeding heart: culling just sounds cruel!! Would you kill off a child with a birth defect? Or because he didn't have blond hair?
(Oh dear god this sounds like a church debate on abortion...)
I agree with reefjitsu, the "new," and perhaps "deformed" fish might find a happy home with someone like me, who doesn't know that his head is misshapen, but chose him for his lively personality and the fact that I do not have the equipment or experience for an anemone.
And I'm not inferring that Reefjitsu is advocating sloppy breeding en masse.
I have to hope there are enough breeders out there who have Ilham's sensibilities on responsible breeding, though I disagree with the whole culling thing!
We all do the best we can in most situations, and hopefully breeding marine fish and other species is one of them.