Peppermint Angel Fish

Sure. Right after I build and stock my new project I'll look into that. Hopefully by then the novelty will wear off and the price will come down. Maybe they will be releasing the pepermint angel 2 and I can get this one used.
 
If their numbers are low in the wild, then what makes you guys think they will thrive in capitivity? They are not going to do so well either...
 
Kurtl000 said:
What does them being uncommon have to do with hardiness?????
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Many things:

If an animal is lowering in numbers it could be many factors thats resulted it such as:
Natural selection
Climate change
Over collecting (not that but its a reason for alot of other animals)
New predators
New virus's, disease, and parasites the fish is normally not exposed to.

Just to name a few. In other words, these fish may be having trouble adapting to the change in enviroment and it just suddenly being put in another doesn't help either.
 
If I'm correct, these fish are found in deeper waters. I never read or heard if they are cold water but from the sounds of it they might be somewhere inbetween a cold water and warm water specimen... like the 70-76 degrees ranges... (Don't freeze your tanks for the peppermint angel because I made that statement, I'm speaking IMHO, I'm trying to say some research should be done for all of us to make sure we even know how to care for these in the first place)
 
Calappidae said:
If their numbers are low in the wild, then what makes you guys think they will thrive in capitivity? They are not going to do so well either...
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If their range is 400' deep, I'd guess that there is little info about how they do in the wild.
I believe the few that were previously captured were/are fine in captivity.
 
albano said:
If their range is 400' deep, I'd guess that there is little info about how they do in the wild.
I believe the few that were previously captured were/are fine in captivity.
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Of course there is a few living fine in captivity. But I'm saying IF more of these were on the market (like lets say somehow 50 peppermints were sold and shipped.) How many do you think would survive? (out of the 50 for example, My bet would be around 20 survivors and the others would last a few days or DOA..)

Just my 2 cents and your 20k :D
 
Calappidae said:
If their numbers are low in the wild, then what makes you guys think they will thrive in capitivity? They are not going to do so well either...
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It's not so much low numbers in the wild, but low numbers of collectors working the depths they are found at ;)
 
billsreef said:
It's not so much low numbers in the wild, but low numbers of collectors working the depths they are found at ;)
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+1..Good point but IMO,
I think its a combo of both as the few divers that do go that deep would've still found more Peppermints over the years than we seen.
 
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