Marine Breeding

[snowclown]

this is indeed a topic of much debate, maybe the method will be perfected one day,who knows? maybe it has allready been attempted in lab.

 

[Musho3210]

many people have kept deep water fish or invertebrate in pressurized chambers before, one thing that comes to mind are jelly fish.

 

[snowclown]

that is an interesting piece of info! i wasnt aware it had been attempted before. Do you happen to know if this was tried with fish that we keep in this hobby?
Also, was they able to get the deep sea fish and inverts to reproduce?

 

[andywg]

The depths are not the issue with most marine fish, it is the planktonic larval stage they go through before leaving the plankton and maturing into small juvenile fish. Looking after, and feeding, such larvae is far from easy.

 

[SkiFletch]

Agreed Andy, that planktonic stage is the tricky part.

I know it was mentioned, but decorative Tridacnid clams are HEAVILY bred. In fact, in the US, ALL Tridacnid clams come from aquaculturists and it is illegal to import wild-caught species. Apparently the clams are EASY to aquaculture in outdoor facilities and are now selectively bred to create new color variations.

 

[andywg]

In fact, many of the inverts we keep are now farmed, such as SPS corals, clams and even shrimp can be bred. The real problem is with some of the fish, although a well managed capture scheme can often be implemented that does not have a serious and permanent detrimental effect on the wild population.