Pacific Blue/Hippo Tangs

[westmichrealtor]

Does anyone have any information on documented captive breeding of tangs, especially Pacific Blue/Hippos? Thanks in advance for any info or links!

 

[David M]

Unless you own a small pubic aquarium or are at least willing to convert your swimming pool it is probably not in you near future Then the problem with the large tanks required would be concentrating and collecting the eggs/ larvae . I have seen some very large pools at a NMFS facility that have overflows with screens for collecting eggs but they work with known foodfish species where there is a ton of doccumented info on culturing.

 

[westmichrealtor]

I'm more than willing to convert my 36,000 gallon swimming pool, but trying to get my wife to go for this is going to be, let's say, a bit of a challenge. :thumbdown Anyone willing to humor me with the info you have, please?

 

[mwp]

Inland Aquatics offers captive reared Blue Heps...at least they're on their list. I suspect it might be pond-culture or some other form, they're probably not "tank bred". That's about all I can offer up.

Matt

 

[AquaticFins]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8565255#post8565255 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mwp
Inland Aquatics offers captive reared Blue Heps...at least they're on their list. I suspect it might be pond-culture or some other form, they're probably not "tank bred". That's about all I can offer up.

Matt

As you suspect, they are collected as fairly small (but obvoiusly post-metamorphosis) juvies and raised from there.

No one has yet successfully raised this species from egg to young fish, as far as I'm aware, though quite a few people have witnessed spawning events.

 

[ediaz]

Hello James

Thanks for the food

Whats happening is that somebody is buying very small, not postlarval just tiny ones from the same palce you get most of you fish, I was first told by Bob's wife when they had the store.

small world

Ed

 

[JamesJR]

I agree with you westmichrealtor I don't think it is impossible to breed blue tangs I am curious about this myself. I think the reason they aren't being bred commercially is that there is no economic incentive for it right now. why go through the expense of figuring out how to do this on a profitable scale when people are already collecting them profitably.

 

[mwp]

Well, it just goes to show you, there are two tangs that would be really good prospects for tank raising - Zebrasoma flavescens and Zebrasoma gemmatum Look at what Baencsh is doing with the Centropyge; he's NOT focusing on low cost species like "Flames" and "Coral Beauties", he's doing ultra rare stuff like Resplendens and Interruptus - the type of stuff that you can charge $700 a pop for. Imagine if you could raise Z. gemmatum, of course the broodstock would probably cost you $20k

Matt

 

[David M]

I sort of lean toward powder blue's myself, small size and somewhat sexually dimorphic (by size). Concievable "tank" breeding species. But still, the expense of setting it up... :eek1: