Captive bred Yellow Tangs

First aquacultured yellow tangs are finally here!

 

So are you selling them?

 

It will be interesting to see how much interest they get.

They will probably be selling for $150 ea, 3x a wild one.

 

I still can't get over the clear fish thing. That to me is not a yellow tang. Maybe a Ghost tang.

 

That is because they are fairly young. There are some white splotches around the face, and the yellow is not as vibrant though.

 

I've been reading and doing a lot of research on these and other captive breeding. The reason this hasn't been done much is like XRoads said. They're gonna be too much money and you can buy one online for 25 bucks. From what I've been reading is the food cost and time doesn't make it worth it. Too many factors and when it comes down to it wild caught are by far the cheapest.

 

Eventually i think they will produce enough that they are cheap enough for any hobbyist, also i assume they are going to be very hardy.

 

RB said that they had advanced head and lateral line erosion or something

 

Really bad issues.

Would you pay a hundred dollars for a scarred yellow tang? - Reef Builders | The Reef and Marine Aquarium Blog

 

Can someone explain why breeding fish is so complicated? They have successfully bread two different species of animals in one, so why is this so far behind in technology?

 

There is a long list of issues.

First is egg collection. They broadcast the eggs and sperm into the water, which then fertilize and float to the surface. They have to have enough spawning height for fertilization to occur.

So you manage to collect the eggs, then there issues with them getting fungus before they hatch 2 days later. And when they are finally born they are basically smaller then a hair.




So you get to the point where they are hatched, about 5 mm long, so you have to feed them. Well a 5 mm prolarvae needs to eat live foods that are 40 um (less then half a millimeter) or smaller.

The challenge is to find, and raise these tiny feeds in a large enough quantities to keep them fed, and then you have to have enough species to feed all the nutritional requirements they need.

The other challenge is keeping the water at a high quality, flow, and light just right.

It is incredibly difficult. Hundreds of thousands of dollars is being spent on it, and the people trying are incredibly smart.