Huge hello and keen to start my marine fish breeding journey!

tharbin · Jun 6, 2024

Welcome to R2R!

WalkerLovesTheOcean · Jun 6, 2024

Welcome to Reef2reef!

LeesMarines · Jun 6, 2024

Firstly a HUGE thank you for the warm welcome and so great to see a real community vibe going on...the best way to learn and advance is to share experiences and the knowledge acquired if you ask me ..so we can all have a better time enjoying this wonderful hobby!

X-37B · Jun 6, 2024

Welcome! Don't forget to feed your fish.

LeesMarines · Jun 6, 2024

BanZI29 said:
Welcome to our little piece of the reef.
What kind of fish are you going to breed? I can help you with copepod and Phyto information if you need it.

Welcome!!!

Big thank you BanZI29 for the warm welcome and fishwise I will start out slowly but keep a little challenge on the side always so I'm testing myself to also learn and get experience in the less known and tested guys.
For starters I will work with the classic ocellaris clowns (I'm also more of a fan of the beautiful natural coloured fish and would rather learn new fish varieties than focus on colour variants but respect peoples Interests), Banggai cardinals, a seahorse type (probably Kuda) and potentially a pipefish like Syngnathoides biaculeatus (Alligator pipefish and because I love their size and remember the time we had some of these epic little guys in a store I was working in). I also would love to get into the Mandarin Gobies and (although the above is already a handful) my challenge of choice will be learning the art of the Centropyge..eek! Haha..there are others but I know I should really just slow down and learn and I'm really focused on the food supplies first and foremost this time. Providing the correct diet is where I see the toughest part of the journey and want to get as much experience in this part of the breeding as possible. I pretty much always have a fishroom running and this time I'm focusing on setting up a marine one. In the past I had a portion of an old fishroom set up to start getting into it and was able to pair up some coral beauties and eibli angels and had a pair of nice tomato clowns too but I had to close that fishroom down before I could advance it any further and this time round I'm all about the food 1st! Yum yum! Haha
I will set up some specific Microalgae cultures to feed Copepods (targeting Parvocalanus Crassirostris) and also to feed Rotifer cultures and will also set up Mysis shrimp and Brine shrimp so that gives me a very good range of food options targetting requirements for juvenile/larvae fish. I feel generations raised in tank environments will only make it much easier on fish having a tank life and will not only ease the burden on the oceans but help stabilise some variety in the hobby. Working in aquarium stores I have sadly seen way too many marine fish come into store and just never get it. It is really really sad to see a beautiful wild caught fish removed from it's natural environment and essentially placed in solitary confinement or a prison of some sort (when you think of its origins)and they just don't get it, they don't eat and just slowly die. I will never forget seeing a beautiful regal angel go through this and for me it's almost a duty of care to use my experience and to learn more and to see if I can assist in the breeding side of marine fish. You really don't want to know the percentage of marine ornamental fish that don't make it home to someones tank. This industry is begging for breeders but they are all on the freshwater side of the hobby. That's just how it is and no one is to blame (it's more to do with the fact we don't live in the ocean so accessibility and experience isn't as easy to get) but being such a keen freshwater breeder and someone who is truly in awe of the beauty of the fish in the ocean it really was just a matter of time for me. Sorry for my long post but really am a fish guy ha ha..I love corals but I've always been a fish guy and used to love breeding rarer freshwater fish to boost numbers and to maintain variety here in Australia where we have such strict importation laws with livestock. We can keep and maintain what we have but if we lose it we can't import it again so that creates a unique situation placing pressure on home breeders to maintain the hobby to some degree and it's variety. The marine hobby is becoming like this but on a global scale which is even more of a threat as we will realise it's not an endless source we will only decrease the variety of fish allowed to be taken from the wild. It's inevitable.