Cleaner wrasse ?

[Me No Nemo]

Well, I think the situation here is to educate, not really being "mad". The concerns are that cleaner shrimp are very plentiful and repopulate easily. Plus they have a very good survival rate in aquariums, whereas cleaner wrasses have a poor survival rate and provide a vital role in the ocean, much more so than the shrimp. It's important to keep conservation issues at the forefront when we choose animals for our tanks. The import of animals is based, obviously, on how they sell. The more informed aquarists are regarding the animals we keep, the more informed we are as buyers. If no one buys certain animals due to their vulnerability and importance in the ocean, then they won't be collected and exported.

 

[Me No Nemo]

Here's another link regarding the wrasses and their survivability in tanks.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/wrasses/CleanerWrasse.php

 

[InLimbo87]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11079432#post11079432 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Me No Nemo
Well, I think the situation here is to educate, not really being "mad". The concerns are that cleaner shrimp are very plentiful and repopulate easily. Plus they have a very good survival rate in aquariums, whereas cleaner wrasses have a poor survival rate and provide a vital role in the ocean, much more so than the shrimp. It's important to keep conservation issues at the forefront when we choose animals for our tanks. The import of animals is based, obviously, on how they sell. The more informed aquarists are regarding the animals we keep, the more informed we are as buyers. If no one buys certain animals due to their vulnerability and importance in the ocean, then they won't be collected and exported.

Amen Marcye

 

[jsl6v8]

Marcye as ever keeping the environment and our impact in front. Bravo.

 

[lifesworksataol]

i dont understand why they cant raise then. they let loose there babies in my tank all the time. i know they are small, but they have to eat something in the wild to grow. why is it so hard?

 

[jsl6v8]

I know when we did an ORA tour they mentioned that a lot of the reason for not tank raising some fish is the cost benefit issue, can make more money raising other fish, some fish just aren't as desirable and therefore aren't captive bred.

 

[Me No Nemo]

I think that, especially with the civil war that's now going on in Sri Lanka, it would be to someone's benefit to raise skunk cleaners, but I haven't heard of anyone doing so. Perhaps it takes too long for them to mature or they can't find what to feed them when they first hatch. I'd love more info if anyone can find any.

 

[ichthyman]

Shrimp Breeding Successes at Tropical Marine Centre

 

[thor32766]

thats really sweet info. Anything that can help reduce what we take from the wild would be great!

 

[lifesworksataol]

i agree

 

[Me No Nemo]

Thanks John. Hope they'll be offering them soon.

 

[chrisstie]

There's a great book out there called Raising and training your peppermint shrimp (or something close) and its got a little cowboy riding and lasso'ing a shrimp

This has great information about the kind of set up you need for shrimps but the challenging part IS the long larval stages.

Fish like banggais and jawfish are mouth brooders so when you have babies they are ready to go on tiny brine shrimp eggs\newly hatched and will soon grow large enough to get cyclopeez and eventually mysis in a decent amount of time.

I'd love to have a tank like a jelly tank to attempt to rear shrimp in- but you need flow gentle enough so as to not smash the little guys against the glass. Very interesting stuff to read on.

When i've worked on my career for a little while and can afford to i think i would enjoy attempting to setup a little fish nursery.

What I find ironic is that clownfish are SO easy to breed compared to other fish but in the wild they breed so often that the clown population in the wild isn't adversely affected even if we had heavy wild collection practices versus aquaculturing.

I really hope to see more efforts focused on the ones like Banggais whos wild population is a concern, and hope that the interest in fish like these would go up as well as awareness and places like ORA could profitably breed the species that need all the help they can get