Can't breed in captivity?

[DNordbak]

This is a question I've had for a while now, and I hope everyone here at MFK will be able to answer it:
If they say that people have not been succesfull in breeding fish in captivity, then how can an LFS sell them for $5 a piece? I'm using Figure 8 puffers as an example here. It just seems like they must be coming from somewhere nearby (I'm near San Francisco), in order for that to even be cost effective.
Thanks,
DNordbak

 

[Vince]

This is a question I've had for a while now, and I hope everyone here at MFK will be able to answer it:
If they say that people have not been succesfull in breeding fish in captivity, then how can an LFS sell them for $5 a piece? I'm using Figure 8 puffers as an example here. It just seems like they must be coming from somewhere nearby (I'm near San Francisco), in order for that to even be cost effective.
Thanks,
DNordbak

I found this info.

http://www.pufferfish.co.uk/aquaria/species/pufferfish/types/index.htm

then, click on Tetraodon Biocellatus

 

[FormulatedFire]

red belly piranhas are easily breed in the home aquarium once they reach sexual maturity and yet lfs range in price for juvi i've seen them for 5 bucks for 1 inchers and at one lfs that i hate 25 for 1 inchers....even if its readily available they can still charge what they want not everything can be the same price as neons

 

[DNordbak]

but I still don't see how they can be sold somewhere for as little as $5, when they cannot be bred in tanks.

 

[IoStrisciare]

but I still don't see how they can be sold somewhere for as little as $5, when they cannot be bred in tanks.

this is where fish farms come in....

 

[I3u11he4d]

Alot of the price comes from the simple fact that most fish lay 100 or so eggs.If you have a large pond or several in central or south america or asia and you have 1000 fish of the same type this adds up to 100000 eggs and if you can get at least 1/2 to hatch thats 50,000 fish.this also explains why wild caught fish tend to be more expensive,plus the extra work involved.So in short thats why a clown fish may only cost 7.00 and a rare plec may cost in excess of 200.00.

 

[ballsmcgee1234]

I have a problem with this also, but with Amano shrimp. We have amano's that are breeding like crazy, even though the babies "need saltwater" to live. We don't have saltwater, only Minneapolis water. For some reason they are breeding and growing up in regular water, the store we get them from also has no trouble breeding them, so I don't always argee that some aren't bred in captivity, but whatever...

 

[Ornatapinnis]

I'm not positive I understand the question.

Is the question, how can a fish be so cheap when it was not bred in capativity? Or stated another way, how can a wild caught fish be so cheap?

There isn't a rule that appliea to all fish about price but it can go either way. I'll explain;

WIld caught salt water clown fish are relitivly inexpensive. There are captive breed clown fish available for close to double the price of wild caught. THe price is higher mostly because of all the time, effort and expense involved with breeding them. There's an example of captive bred fish being more expensive than wild caught.

Compair that to fresh water angel fish or oscars. THese are being bred in the billions by countless of fish farms & hobbiest. They re produce in very large numbers with relative ease. Because of this they are dirt cheap. A wild caight oscar or angel fish can be a high as 10 time the price of a captive bred fish.

The puffer that was the main subject of this thread, from what I understand, are very plentiful and very easy to collect and occour in highly populated areas. The people who collect these fish get paid very little money to collect them. Basically there is a large supply of them in an easilly accessed area. They are supposedly tough to breed in captivity so the price of captive bred ones would be much higher plus who would buy captive bred ones for at least double the cost of a wild caught one?

Another take on this is that some of the wild caught fish are in remote areas that are very diffacult to get to, that are going to be real pricey. Or some of them are not very plentiful, they too are going to be expensive.

There are many in's and out's about this subject. It's going to very from one fish to another.

 

[papillon]

asian country have a lot puffers