dv0920
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Shutiny
Shutiny
Shutin I want to thank you for your dedicated and intelligent response, I believe when you said,
I believe this answer explains a lot, and I thank you for it. I believe propagation is key for this hobby to survive some of the great impacts our lifestyles have made on the oceans. I know some people here have stated that they believe, no amount of collecting of Rietteri's would have an impact on the worlds population, whereas others have stated that they have personally seen atolls and reef's decimated by colecting of this species. I have to say to anyone who dives regularly, and travels to certain spots repeadtly, there is a change occuring and not a good one. This is not to say the hobby is representative of this change, but as someone stated "this tank is a glimspe into a time period of reef," they are absolutely correct because reefs are changing.
I have been trying personally to get funding from Unesco to raise and breed angelfish for sometime now, and have been doing tons of research on this topic. I am incontact with a few marine biologist, some from Wood's Hole Oceangrpahic Institute, others from local aquariums, and all who have worked in Indonesia, Phillipines, etc... have seen great changes to our reefs and are working towards rebuilding them. There is a website called the Coral Reef Project, I have to get the link for everyone, but on this site, they use steel cages with small electric voltage running through them to encourage coral growth, although this isnt useful in the confines of a home aquarium, it seems to work well in the wild. I know this is not new information to any savy readers here, but to some it maybe.
My concern about Ritteri's is their ability to reproduce, and taking large mother colonies from the wild, is a dangerous game for the fish species we all love as well as for the anenmones. I think Shu Tin you understand this dillema when trying to propgate a species, hopefully in the end some great insight will be gained, and hopefully the biologist working with you, can really do us all a favor a do a good lengthly study of what your trying to accomplish. I feel the same about angelfish, particularly Centrotype genus.
I have to apologize for underestimating your commitment and reasoning for this tank. I am glad your doing what your doing, and I hope you keep a good contigency plan with local aquairums for your livestock if god forbid the day comes when you may have to give up this wonder.
I love this hobby, and all it ecnompases, some people don't see that we are actually pushing the envelope here, being able to study at home things most biologist don't get to do in the wild.
Yes as Shutin suggested let's keep everything civil here, I never meant any offense to anyone, just a curious person here. No I wouldn't ask an Texans to give up steak, steak is quite tasty and something I miss very much, but high cholestorol, has me on a different diet then I'd choose, G-d knows I have eaten quite a few steaks in my day. lol
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Shutiny
Shutin I want to thank you for your dedicated and intelligent response, I believe when you said,
you said a lot.
I believe this answer explains a lot, and I thank you for it. I believe propagation is key for this hobby to survive some of the great impacts our lifestyles have made on the oceans. I know some people here have stated that they believe, no amount of collecting of Rietteri's would have an impact on the worlds population, whereas others have stated that they have personally seen atolls and reef's decimated by colecting of this species. I have to say to anyone who dives regularly, and travels to certain spots repeadtly, there is a change occuring and not a good one. This is not to say the hobby is representative of this change, but as someone stated "this tank is a glimspe into a time period of reef," they are absolutely correct because reefs are changing.
I have been trying personally to get funding from Unesco to raise and breed angelfish for sometime now, and have been doing tons of research on this topic. I am incontact with a few marine biologist, some from Wood's Hole Oceangrpahic Institute, others from local aquariums, and all who have worked in Indonesia, Phillipines, etc... have seen great changes to our reefs and are working towards rebuilding them. There is a website called the Coral Reef Project, I have to get the link for everyone, but on this site, they use steel cages with small electric voltage running through them to encourage coral growth, although this isnt useful in the confines of a home aquarium, it seems to work well in the wild. I know this is not new information to any savy readers here, but to some it maybe.
My concern about Ritteri's is their ability to reproduce, and taking large mother colonies from the wild, is a dangerous game for the fish species we all love as well as for the anenmones. I think Shu Tin you understand this dillema when trying to propgate a species, hopefully in the end some great insight will be gained, and hopefully the biologist working with you, can really do us all a favor a do a good lengthly study of what your trying to accomplish. I feel the same about angelfish, particularly Centrotype genus.
I have to apologize for underestimating your commitment and reasoning for this tank. I am glad your doing what your doing, and I hope you keep a good contigency plan with local aquairums for your livestock if god forbid the day comes when you may have to give up this wonder.
I love this hobby, and all it ecnompases, some people don't see that we are actually pushing the envelope here, being able to study at home things most biologist don't get to do in the wild.
Yes as Shutin suggested let's keep everything civil here, I never meant any offense to anyone, just a curious person here. No I wouldn't ask an Texans to give up steak, steak is quite tasty and something I miss very much, but high cholestorol, has me on a different diet then I'd choose, G-d knows I have eaten quite a few steaks in my day. lol
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Each and every life is precious; big or small. We should all do our bests. Cheers all!
, the only thing i ever see while scrolling through different threads is that people are having thier corlas and fish spawn, but the discussion on that topic normally ends there. although i did see a cool thread about cuttlefish breeding. cuttlefish army something rather???
