What happened to this?

[Anemone_Fanatic]

I just found this article on Reef2Rainforest.

RCT Announces Aquacultured Convict Tangs

As part of the Hawaii Larval Fish Project, Frank Baensch breaks ground with the surgeonfish genus Acanthurus, sharing amazing larviculture proof-of-co

www.reef2rainforest.com

What happened to this? Why has nobody pursued the breeding and sale of these little baby convict tangs? It seems to me that ORA, Bali Aquarich, and Biota would have begun work on making these and other tangs aside from yellows available. Thanks!

 

[vetteguy53081]

I just found this article on Reef2Rainforest.

RCT Announces Aquacultured Convict Tangs

As part of the Hawaii Larval Fish Project, Frank Baensch breaks ground with the surgeonfish genus Acanthurus, sharing amazing larviculture proof-of-co

www.reef2rainforest.com

What happened to this? Why has nobody pursued the breeding and sale of these little baby convict tangs? It seems to me that ORA, Bali Aquarich, and Biota would have begun work on making these and other tangs aside from yellows available. Thanks!

Personally on baby convicts, I’ve seen them the last 6 months shipping skinny/under nourished and dying for at least 20 people thus far

 

[Tamberav]

I just found this article on Reef2Rainforest.

RCT Announces Aquacultured Convict Tangs

As part of the Hawaii Larval Fish Project, Frank Baensch breaks ground with the surgeonfish genus Acanthurus, sharing amazing larviculture proof-of-co

www.reef2rainforest.com

What happened to this? Why has nobody pursued the breeding and sale of these little baby convict tangs? It seems to me that ORA, Bali Aquarich, and Biota would have begun work on making these and other tangs aside from yellows available. Thanks!

There are many fish bred that are more or less one and done. As in they are bred but producing them in quantities for sale or such is not done.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

There are many fish bred that are more or less one and done. As in they are bred but producing them in quantities for sale or such is not done.

Yeah, a lot of the time it’s basically a cost benefit analysis that decides if a species is worth culturing. If it’s a popular species that’s easy to culture (like clowns) they breed them. If it’s a difficult species but still popular (like yellow tangs) they might breed them, they might not (yellow tangs are incredibly popular, so they breed them).

Convict tangs are popular, but probably not as popular as yellow tangs, so they might not be worth breeding from a business perspective.