Anyone Bred Redfin Prochilodus?

[FLESHY]

try ST Datnoids:}not a vegetarian but a fish that will no doubt be gone some day,sooner then later.We need more of these around.

Thanks for the suggestion and yes, this is the fish we have switched our interests to. Easier and cheaper to find in the industry anyways.

Sounds cool, have you looked into tin foil barbs? i think they are vegetarian and i'm not sure if they're being farm raised or not yet.

Would love to breed dats. Would love to have a dat. Unfortunately the universities objective on this project is to find low trophic level fish for food aquaculture purposes...but maybe eventually I will have the capability to breed them for the hobby industry.

 

[kallmond]

Its doubtful you'll be able to breed any kind of datnoid in captivity without massive amounts of hormones, and uncredited sources say that leads to ugly/deformed fish out of Indonesia.

I'm by no means a breeding expert, but it seems like you'd be better off coming up with a list of available, herbivorous, low on the food chain fish and let the experts here and on other sites give their knowledge of husbandry rather than deciding on the fish species and then figuring out its not possible to breed in captivity.

I saw where you said in your original post that breeding wasn't necessary, but would be advantageous to the program. If the whole list above turns out to be unbreedable, then it seems to me you'd be looking for the most readily obtainable fish on the list.

 

[FLESHY]

The whole dat thing is a tanget...so disregard that. We are starting an aquaculture project, and in order for it to be truely sucessful you need to be able to breed the fish. So thats the issue. Like I said...the prochilodus has been changed to tinfoils...and thats all we know now. I am in the process of getting different offers from different wholesalers.