Captive Bred Fish

Did you know that more and more fish are being bred raised in captivity?

As hobbyists, we need to support such efforts to lessen the impact on our world's natural reefs.

Below is a list of some of the fish that are available.

Please seriously consider captive bred (aka 'farm raised') fish next time you would like a fish.

Our oceans need our help now and ironically, our hobby can be instrumental in restoring them. Let's do our part.  




Common Name  Scientific Name  


Sebae anemonefish  Amphiprion sebae

Twoband anemonefish  Amphiprion bicinctus
 
White-tipped anemonefish  hybrid: Amphiprion sebae x Amphiprion polymnus

Orange skunk clownfish  Amphiprion sandaracinos

Saddleback clownfish  Amphiprion polymnus

Percula clownfish  Amphiprion percula

Ocellaris anemonefish  Amphiprion ocellaris

Cinnamon clownfish  Amphiprion melanopus

Tomato clownfish  Amphiprion frenatus

Fire clownfish  Amphiprion ephippium

Clark's anemonefish  Amphiprion clarkii

Maroon clownfish  Premnas biaculeatus



Lyretail dottyback  Pseudochromis steenei

Blue-striped dottyback  Pseudochromis springeri

Royal gramma  Gramma loreto

Neon dottyback  Pseudochromis aldabraensis

Diadem dottyback  Pseudochromis diadema

Sunrise dottyback  Pseudochromis flavivertex

Orchid dottyback  Pseudochromis fridmani

Golden dottyback  Pseudochromis fuscus

Splendid dottyback  Pseudochromis splendens

Neon cleaner goby  Elacatinus oceanops

Yellownose goby  Elacatinus randalli

Golden neon goby (hybrid)  Elacatinus oceanops x E. randalli

Yellow/blue prawn goby  Cryptocentrus cinctus

Pink-speckled shrimpgoby  Cryptocentrus leptocephalus

Luther's prawn-goby  Cryptocentrus lutheri

Red-headed goby  Elacatinus puncticulatus

Sharknose goby  Elacatinus evelynae

Striped poison-fang blenny  Meiacanthus grammistes

Green canary blenny  Meiacanthus tongaensis

Disco blenny  Meiacanthus smithi

Canary blenny  Meiacanthus oualanensis

Mozambique fangblenny  Meiacanthus mossambicus

Bundoon blenny  Meiacanthus bundoon

Forktail blenny  Meiacanthus atrodorsalis

Blackline fangblenny  Meiacanthus nigrolineatus

Spotted seatrout  Cynoscion nebulosus

Black drum Pogonias cromis

Cobia  Rachycentron canadum

Redfish  Sciaenops ocellatus

Florida pompano  Trachinotus carolinus

http://www.proaquatix.com/allspecies.asp




Check out these links:

http://www.proaquatix.com

http://www.amdareef.com/captive_wholesalers.htm




If you know of more links or species that are farm raised now, please contribute to this list!

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Awesome information Matt!

 

Thanks Craig.

I will be researching this the next few weeks, so more on the way!

 

This link did not work for me;

http://www.springerfish.com/

 

Weird, worked this weekend. Thanks!

 

Has anyone discovered a source for tank raised or captive
Bengaii cardinals? :-/

 

Welcome rhard! Feel free to join as a member, we'd love to have you!

No commmercial captive raised Cardinal fish to my knowledge, though reefers have has success breeding them in the home aquarium.

 

I am curious about the differences between wild caught and captive raised percula clowns. I really like the heavy black banding I often see on the wild caught specimens... is this actually a feature of only the wild caught fish or is it a coloration that can be found in captive raised clowns?

 

The LiveAquaria.com site has the following quote on tank bred clowns:

This suggests that I could keep multiple types of clown in the same tank. Paletta and every other source I find warns against having more than one type of clown, and even warns against having more than a single pair of clown of any type.

Are tank bred clowns really that different?

 

Michael I wish I could answer this with confidence but I can't.

This is what I've heard... captive bred clowns have a slightly different pattern and that in general, captive bred fish are mellower than their wild counterparts.

That said, I probably would still not mix different clowns, even if captive bred. This is more intuition than actual experience.