The successful captive breeding of the yellow tang in aquariums took more than ten years of effort. So to celebrate we’re going to help the Oceanic Institute take a longer form victory lap with yet another update of the captive bred卵巢瘤黄酮.
Today’s update comes to us in video form, and it is the first moving images to show the 187 little miracles, swimming and schooling together in their first mature grow out tank. Prior to this the larval yellow tangs had always lived in a series of pelagic water vessels with careful, gentle flow and nothing for them to run into.
海洋研究所发行的第一部视频是一个简短的预告片剪辑,显示出各种幼虫阶段的黄色唐人,没有颜色,几乎完全清晰。与其他五颜六色的黄色唐人相比,晚幼虫黄色唐人看起来裸露,您可以直接通过它们,直到他们达到幼虫发育的最后阶段。
Now that they are teeny tiny versions of the adults, these post-larval yellow tangs will live a very similar free-ranging lifestyle as their adult counterparts. Their lives will be filled with structures, grazing, posturing to other tankmates, fighting a little bit, and hopefully a little bit of breeding to complete to cycle.
Seeing fish school is a wonderful sight, and made all the more wonderful when it’s captive bred specimens that are the result of a decade of work and research. Now that the method for captive breeding of yellow tangs has succeeded, we hope that this grow out tank of juvenile tangs is the first of many that will be built to house many more of these fish in the future.
If you want to help with this endeavor, you can support the continuing work of the Oceanic Institute through their ongoingGoFundMecampaign.