Hey milehighreefer:)

Quality?

I think a lot of fish in stores are probably captive bred

I would as well! How can I get fish from this farm?

Gostaria de saber se ele come coral??

Alina N don’t know if tank raised can be used to repopulate. I try for captive ones too, nowadays there is a big selection. 😊

I'm glad other people share this thought. I wouldn't want to keep wildcaught fish. Luckily in freshwater the majority of fish are tank bred.

Wow, I can't believe your tang is that old!

@Alina N How big is your 25-year old (now 29 I guess?) Yellow Tang?

cegentry, people have been breeding dwarf angels for almost half a decade.

have they been breeding the coral beauty? because if they have I have never seen it. Have they bred them to this level of perfection? I am aware of the work of Frank Baensch. He has been breeding them for quite a bit longer than 5 years. Matter of fact he hasn't bred any in more than 5 years.

I definitely agree

I suspect a combination of selective breeding by choosing the most healthy AND vibrant (to begin with) parents, along with no risk from natural predators. Their stock I presume is Palauan, perhaps Palauan / Pacific Island specimens are more vibrant than the ones we usually get which are from Indo and the Philippines. However even then I think it’s utilizing the ones with the best genetics in the first place (along with being the ones that adapt and do well) and having them as the brood stock for their breeding program. I am okay with this kind of selective breeding but definitely not the kind we see in Clownfish (and hopefully not in other species that are being captive bred / will be captive bred in the years to come). I’d also like to add that because these are growing up in natural sunlight and getting loads of it every day, perhaps it’s also beneficial to them developing better pigmentation compared to their wild counterparts caught at depth (not necessarily deep water but having less exposure to sunlight on a daily basis).

dtip4life 8472 Got this Fish triggert? :D such a easy triggert fish. Im triggert by the Clown trigger.

dtip4life 8472 Clown trigger fish got triggert

Matt Aquatics z

Quinn _ strucktire and corals are actually benefitical, because they can give the fish mire roome to hide or escape from eatch other when they have an argument or fight.

On their website it costs 89 bucks per fish. Having 3 $30 cyanide caught ones from Southeast Asia die is the equivalent price. Captive bred all the way as long as we don’t do what’s being done to Clownfish. That is my definition of revolting.

EDKsurly sadly, no. plus they eat corals so I wouldn't recommend them for a 20g

Coral Beauties are among the most reef safe pygmy angelfish, and the captive bred specimens should be even more well behaved.

If that's true, I'll have to order one. Are they more reef safe than Flame Angels? I have a 90 gallon SPS dominated tank and worry about my corals getting nipped.

Is there any evidence that captive bred coral beauties are more well behaved?

DarkSky ATM it's only hypothetical, there simply hasn't been enough of them around for long enough to really find out

Sensimilla Obsessions - true. but sharing our experiences helps us piece together the habits of the species, as a whole. it's the beginnings of data collection.

eaux salé

Kk merci

Most are caught from the wild in the Philippines and Indonesia which often don’t use the best collection practices. It’s really luck of the draw when it comes to these Southeast Asian specimens.

That you Maya???

Yep hi

$35 + shipping..too expensive? Stick with goldfish.