First of all I'm not the one that keeps resurrecting this thread.
Second you don't think calling someone a Bully is an insult? funny I've never been called that before:) as for tone you hear what you want to hear.
The issue is taking these creatures from the Tide Pools, it's illegal, even if it wasn't these animals will die
in your aquarium so where is the responsibility lie in that?
The mortality rate among wild-caught fish is 80 to 90 percent even before they land in the pet store, and about 50 to 60 percent of the initial survivors after that, a lot of these fish are being driven towards extinction, and if we can learn how to raise them, we can preserve them.
Unlike most marine fish species, the Banggai Cardinal fish is confined to a relatively small area in the wild and has been very vulnerable to over collection, the Endangered Status, the Banggai does remain on the IUCN Redlist as "endangered".
Dr Who wrote "As far as buying only buying tank raised saltwater your being fooled." well with that statement I have to say I know people personally that captive breed many species of fish and fragment corals. I don't buy from LFS 99% of the time and when I do there is only one LFS that I would even considering buying from, "All the fancy titles on saltwater are just to make you feel good about yourself." I get most of my stock from other Reefers/friends so there's no need to worry about making myself feel good. what a crock! "hunters rape the environment. Nature produces way to many that you would never notice them missing" wrong you can not compare this to hunting Deer,Elk, Bear,Pheasant these animals don't have mass die off because of their enviroment being polluted like Marine fish do LOL so far I have never seen a mammal drop dead from air quality. as far as Damsels go they should be left in the ocean they are mean as h3ll and most times you can't give them away, atleast to anyone who knows how they are...
"Aren't urchins considered a nuisance species in California?" yes, so when they die in this guy's tank he can eat them so its not a total loss.
This is a Welcoming forum but it also should be a place to learn rather than just mindless chatter and ignorant comments like "just sue me"and being proud of the fact that you admittedly took these animals from a protected area.
captive breeding or to put it technically “aquaculturing ornamental marine fish” was once a distant dream for saltwater aquarium owners and was thought an incomprehensible dark art… But today thanks to the food fish industry, public aquaria and scientific advancement captive breeding of many marine fishes is a reality and the list of species successfully bred is increasing every day. This contrasts with freshwater aquarium fish which are mostly captive bred and wild caught examples are the exception rather than the rule.The difficulty lies in that each species of marine fish has its own breeding strategy brought about by unique environmental cues many of which are still not completely understood by science. Then everything must be just so for breeding to take place; low stress levels, a compatible breeding pair, the right environmental conditions, excellent nutrition, romantic music LOL… To date the only major marine fish groups to have species unable to be captive bred are Butterflyfish and Tangs.
CAPTIVE BRED WHOLESALERS FISH LIST:
Angelfish
Coral beauty (Centropyge bispinosus)
Lemon peel (Centropyge flavissimus)
Flame Angelfish (Centropyge loricula)
Fisher’s angel (Centropyge fisheri)
Japanese pygmy angel (Centropyge interruptus)
Multicolor angel (Centropyge multicolor)
Masked angel (Genicanthus personatus)
Grey angel (Pomacanthus arcuatus)
Asfur angel (Pomacanthus asfur)
French angel (Pomacanthus paru)
Half Moon Angelfish (Pomacanthus maculosus)
Blennies
Goldentail Comb-tooth Blenny (Enchelyurus flavipes)
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)
Boxfishes
Scrawled cowfish (Acanthostracion quadricornis)
Cardinalfish
Blue-eye Cardinal (Apogon compressus)
Blue-Streak Cardinal (Apogon leptacanthus )
Banggai Cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni)
Pajama Cardinalfish (Sphaeramia nematoptera)
Clownfish
False Percula Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris)
Clark's Clownfish (Amphiprion clarkii)
Tomato Clownfish (Amphiprion frenatus)
Gold-Stripe Maroon Clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus)
Cinnamon Clownfish (Amphiprion melanopus)
Fire Clownfish (Amphiprion ephippium)
Australian Clownfish (Amphiprion rubrocinctus)
Orange Skunk Clownfish (Amphiprion sandaracinos)
Pink Skunk Clownfish (Amphiprion periderion)
Saddleback Clownfish (Amphiprion polymnus)
True Percula Clownfish (Amphiprion percula)
Sebae Anemonefish (Amphiprion sebae)
Twoband Anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus)
White-tipped Anemonefish hybrid (Amphiprion sebae x Amphiprion polymnus)
Comets and Assessors
Yellow Assessor (Assessor flavissimus)
Blue Assessor (Assessor macnelli)
Marine Betta (Calloplesiops altivelis)
Dottybacks
Orchid Dottyback (Pseudochromis fridmani)
Striped Dottyback (Pseudochromis sankeyi)
Sunrise Dottyback (Pseudochromis flavivertex)
Splendid Dottyback (Pseudochromis splendens)
Neon Dottyback (Pseudochromis aldabraensis)
Diadem Dottyback (Pseudochromis diadema)
Lyretail Dottyback (Pseudochromis steenei)
Golden Dottyback (Pseudochromis fuscus)
Blue-Striped Dottyback ([I]Pseudochromis springeri[/I)
Redhead Dottyback (Pseudochromis dilectus)
Dragonets
(Synchiropus splendidus)
Gobies
Yellow/blue Prawn Goby (Cryptocentrus cinctus)
Pink-Speckled Shrimpgoby- (Cryptocentrus leptocephalus)
Yellow Watchman Goby- (Cryptocentrus cinctus)
Luthera's Watchman Goby- (Cryptocentrus lutheri)
Greenbanded Goby (Elacatinus multifasciatus )
Red-Headed Goby- Elacatinus puncticulatus)
Shortstripe Goby (Elacatinus chancei)
Neon Goby - (Gobiosoma oceanops)
Hybrid Cleaner Goby - (Gobiosoma oceanops x Gobiosoma randalli)
Yellowline Goby - (Gobiosoma randalli)
Goldline Goby - (Gobiosoma louisae)
Sharknose Goby- (Gobiosoma evelynae)
Grammas
Royal Gramma- (Gramma loreto)
Blackcap Basslet- (Gramma melacara)
Groupers
Blue hamlet (Hypoplectrus gemma)
Shy hamlet (Hypoplectrus guttavarius)
Butter hamlet (Hypoplectrus unicolor)
Belted sandfish (Serranus subligarius)
Jacks
Pilotfish (Gnathanodon speciosus)
Jawfish
Yellow-headed jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons)
Banded jawfish (Opistognathus macrognathus)
Puffers
Sharpnose puffer (Canthigaster rostrata)
Half-smooth golden puffer (Lagocephalus spadiceus)
Northern puffer (Sphoeroides maculatus)
Seahorses & Seadragons
Big-bellied seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis)
Lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus)
Long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus)
Thorny seahorse (Hippocampus histrix)
Common seahorse (Hippocampus kuda)
Longsnout seahorse (Hippocampus reidi)
Dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae)
Leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques)
Common seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)
Rabbitfish
White-spotted spinefoot (Siganus canaliculatus)
Snappers
Emporer snapper (Lutjanus sebae)
Wrasses
Multicolorfin wrasse (Halichoeres poecilopterus)
Hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus)
Mobile Invertebrates
Red Waratah Anemone- (Actinia tenebrosa)
Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
Aiptasia-eating Nudibranch (Berghia verrucicornis)
Upsidedown Jellyfish (Cassiopea frondosa)
Bubble-Tipped Anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor)
Peppermint shrimp-(Lysmata wurdemanni)
Minature Carpet Anemone (Stichodactyla tapetum)
Queen Conch (Strombus gigas)
Coral banded shrimp (Stenopus hispidus)
Fighting Conch (Strombus alatus)
Assorted Snails
Ornamental Shrimps
Eastern harlequin shrimp (Hymenocera picta)
White-striped cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
Catalina cleaner shrimp (Lysmata californica)
Scarlet cleaner shrimp (Lysmata debelius)
Rathbun’s cleaner shrimp (Lysmata rathbunae)
Peppermint shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni)
Wholesalers
C-Quest:
Contact: Katy / Sales
email: cquest@prtc.net
phone: 787-845-2160
phone: 787-845-3909
fax: 787-845-3929
ORA:
www.orafarm.com
Contact: Vince Rado / Kelly Hunter
vrado@hboi.edu / kthunter@hboi.edu
phone: 561-468-7008
toll free: 888-317-3276
fax: 561-468-7353
Ocean Rider:
www.oceanrider.com
Contact: Carol Cozzi-Schmarr, President
info@oceanrider.com
phone: 808-329-6840
fax: 808-329-6841
Proaquatix:
www.proaquatix.com
Contact: Whit Hazelton
info@proaquatix.com
phone: 772-581-8066
I hope you all have a fantasic Holiday weekend!! I know I will:)