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Old 12-18-2004, 12:32 PM   #10 (permalink)
Cougra
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Actually I'm really not sure that I would be too keen on getting a lot of captive breed fish. I have seen what happens to the fish on the freshwater side of the hobby, you get an unnatural amount of albino fish, poor captive stocks, fish that don't resemble their wild counterparts, poor health, a lot of inbreeding, batches for sale that are all from the same brood (Brothers and sisters!), and the list goes on. I've recently seen some captive bred Percula clownfish that had obvious defects (mainly small fins) that should have been culled as soon as these defects were noticed for sale and people wanting to buy them because they want their own "Nemo". IMO this sets a dangerous president for encouraging the breeding are rearing of fish that would naturally be culled in nature.

I don't look forward to the day where we can by lyre tail albino A. percula clownfish or Veiltailed Cardinalfish. It's bad enough in the freshwater side of the hobby.

Now captive REARED is a different story, I would like to see more of that.
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