There’s been quite a frenzy of captive bred fish in the marine aquarium world lately, but the new cultured clown triggerfish from Biota Marine in Palau are an exciting new group of fish altogether. Frank Baensch has raised crosshatch triggerfish in the past, but if there’s one species whose juvenile are extremely popular in the saltwater aquarium it’s clown triggerfish,巴厘岛stoides conspiccillum.
Tom Bowling, one of last year’sMACNA speakers谈到了他如何在帕劳和large spawning aggregations那里有很好的记录。培养bluelined seabream汤姆(Tom优质海洋in Los Angeles.
我们上周在优质的海军陆战队中停下来,亲眼目睹了itty的小丑触发器,它们确实很可爱,大约是典型的野生捕获标本的一半。在这种尺寸下,来自Biota Marine的少年小丑触发器仍在开发其全黑,白色和黄色的燕尾服,但我们已经可以看到一些有趣的变化。
圈养的鱼,无论是神仙鱼还是小丑鱼,与完全野生的同行相比,通常会显示出更大程度的可变性。就这些培养的小丑扳手鱼而言,有几个标本显示出对它们的斑点的涂鸦,我们真的很高兴看到这些模式如何随着鱼的成熟而发展。谁知道?也许这个离合器会扔掉一些极端的罕见的“迷宫”小丑扳机鱼颜色变形。
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这是在北美出售的第一批商业饲养的小丑扳机鱼。这些已被囚禁,并由Palau的Biota Marine Life Nursery提出。优质海洋是北美这些鱼类的独家供应商。
我们正在单独握住这些鱼,因为小丑扳手鱼以侵略性行为而闻名,尤其是随着年龄的增长。这些鱼是培养的,并在一起生活的很大一部分,因此可能不如野生对应者那么积极。话虽如此,我们的兴趣在于确保我们股票的最佳健康以及交付给客户的标本质量,因此我们打算不“测试”其气质。
We are feeding them Gamma mysis, enriched brine, krill, chopped prawn and other marine based diced meaty foods. They also get some more protein dense foods like pellets and gel, which they have taken greedily. Like most Triggers, they have seemingly bottomless stomachs, and do best on multiple feedings per day.