This topic kept me going for a while with all the new types of captive bred fish coming into the hobby market.
With numerous threads about stocking a tank with fish, how big, how many, aggressive etc, etc.
I've been thinking for a while now to take my tank down as we know it
and rebuild it back up from the ground but only using material as in liverock that is man made and brought to live to our own resources for example ......... http://tbsaltwater.com/
Most if not all of my corals are captive grown, yes of course the original source is from the reefs around the world but i bought or traded them as frags from frags.
Thinking of two groups of corals in the tank layout as in two rock formations, one with only corals from the Australian reefs regions and the second rock formation only corals from the Azian reefs.
Still it will be mostly sticks (SPS) as I already have them.
That said the same I was thinking about the fish but than how awesome would it be to stock your tank only with captive bred fish??
I know their will be not a whole lot of choice to please me as many ppl know I like the delicate fish in my tanks but heck their are a few captive bred fish out there that can make a tank look pretty awesome.
All my fish I have now will be obsolete and need to go in a different tank or just get rid of them as all are wild caught and not bred in a system.
They probably will end up in my frag tanks but that's for a later concern.
I'm more a coral guy if it comes down to the overall look but having a large system setup with only resources as mention above that would be awesome, man made rock, aqua grown corals and captive bred fish.
On top of that I don't use any of the additives to have my corals or fish look great, I use a variation of frozen food (Larry's, Rod's, the new PE mysis duo packs and my own fresh frozen Blackworms) not using nutrients removing chemicals but just rely on my skimmer and water changes.
I feel I become a complete greeny basically !!!HELP!!!
Now with this plan I need help from the R2R community to put together a list of captive bred fish currently available and where to get them as in vendors breeders etc.
See it as a DATA BASE of captive bred fish in the hobby trade.
I know the clown fish will be the first but I ain't a clown guy but yes please do mention these as well cause I know there will be many like me trying to follow this concept if some not already done so.
Any input will welcome as always.
[HASHTAG]#reefsquad[/HASHTAG]
With numerous threads about stocking a tank with fish, how big, how many, aggressive etc, etc.
I've been thinking for a while now to take my tank down as we know it
and rebuild it back up from the ground but only using material as in liverock that is man made and brought to live to our own resources for example ......... http://tbsaltwater.com/Most if not all of my corals are captive grown, yes of course the original source is from the reefs around the world but i bought or traded them as frags from frags.
Thinking of two groups of corals in the tank layout as in two rock formations, one with only corals from the Australian reefs regions and the second rock formation only corals from the Azian reefs.
Still it will be mostly sticks (SPS) as I already have them.
That said the same I was thinking about the fish but than how awesome would it be to stock your tank only with captive bred fish??
I know their will be not a whole lot of choice to please me as many ppl know I like the delicate fish in my tanks but heck their are a few captive bred fish out there that can make a tank look pretty awesome.
All my fish I have now will be obsolete and need to go in a different tank or just get rid of them as all are wild caught and not bred in a system.
They probably will end up in my frag tanks but that's for a later concern.
I'm more a coral guy if it comes down to the overall look but having a large system setup with only resources as mention above that would be awesome, man made rock, aqua grown corals and captive bred fish.
On top of that I don't use any of the additives to have my corals or fish look great, I use a variation of frozen food (Larry's, Rod's, the new PE mysis duo packs and my own fresh frozen Blackworms) not using nutrients removing chemicals but just rely on my skimmer and water changes.
I feel I become a complete greeny
basically !!!HELP!!! Now with this plan I need help from the R2R community to put together a list of captive bred fish currently available and where to get them as in vendors breeders etc.
See it as a DATA BASE of captive bred fish in the hobby trade.
I know the clown fish will be the first but I ain't a clown guy but yes please do mention these as well cause I know there will be many like me trying to follow this concept if some not already done so.
Any input will welcome as always.
[HASHTAG]#reefsquad[/HASHTAG]
