What is your dream captive-bred fish?

[jlee]

I would love to see the yasha goby. I won't buy any wild-caught fish and this is the one I most want to own. So beautiful!

 

[ultraArcite]

I would love to see the yasha goby. I won't buy any wild-caught fish and this is the one I most want to own. So beautiful!

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[Cv111]

Lawmower blennies that are well conditioned to eat GHA and nori with regularity lol. And firefish. Regular, purple, exquisite, Helfrichi, etc. Very popular/common fish and I would love to see them no longer brought in from the wild. Also fire shrimp would be cool. I still feel guilty getting mine from the wild :(

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Anyone mention a Moorish Idol?

 

[Cv111]

Firefish are on every company's list at the moment so it was definitely a good suggestion! They have proven to be incredibly difficult and elusive to breed with so many people getting so close. I think over the next few years one of the major breeding companies will have success with firefish and it will provide a major breakthrough.

This makes me so happy to hear! They're so common. Like maybe next to clowns they'd be the biggest thing in captive breeding.

 

[L Sean Hubbard]

I would like to echo those asking for eels (especially golden dwarf morays) and moorish idols.

I'd also love to see harlequin shrimp who could be sustained on food other than starfish . . . or if some kind of processed, readily available food could be made available that would make keeping them easier.

 

[Grossman90]

Leopard wrasses or a potters leopard to be more specific with the hawaii ban.

 

[Reef James]

Candy Basslets please, please, pretty please!

 

[damsels are not mean]

weird cryptic fishes that never show up in stores like coral pipefish and tiny commensal gobies

 

[SVC_117]

Flashers for me!

 

[GHOSTLY]

Flashers for me!

Are flasher wrasses not captive?

 

[freezie]

Great White

 

[ZoWhat]

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Madagascar Flasher Wrasse

 

[toadstool_paradise]

Yellow Assessor..know they were breeding them years back but can never find one. Definitely a dream fish for me!

 

[jaganshi066]

Yellow Assessor..know they were breeding them years back but can never find one. Definitely a dream fish for me!

i have one, it’s so beautiful

 

[jaganshi066]

Yellow Assessor..know they were breeding them years back but can never find one. Definitely a dream fish for me!

i have one, it’s so beautiful

 

[jaganshi066]

So here at Biota we've had success in every major family of marine ornamental fishes and I was wondering what species you want to see captive-bred next? Maybe we can make that dream a reality!

For attention, below is a video of our first ever captive-bred red coris wrasse at 49dph which was a really fun one.

Multibar angel

 

[toadstool_paradise]

i have one, it’s so beautiful

Totally jealous!

 

[Fishfreak2009]

As for new species, definitely the moorish idol, and perhaps the skunk tilefish? Flame angelfish, Potters Angelfish, and Black cap basslets would also be nice additions.

One of the biggest things I'd like to see is more regular availability of various species already bred. Certain fish I'd snap up in a heartbeat, but I haven't seen them listed as available in quite a while or ever. I'd love a chance to grab a multibar angel, a hawaiian cleaner wrasse, and a yellow coris wrasse. I'm waiting for those potter's angels you mentioned earlier to be available as well.