USA based Black / Silver / Jar / Lei breeding operations?

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Ok guys, I've spent the past half hour or so scouring the intarwebs for a breeder of legal to possess arowanas in the good ole US of A. I had no luck finding them. All I was able to dig up was stuff from people looking for Asians in the USA and people breeding Asians in Asia.

Do any of you know if there are any breeders stateside?

Do you all think such an operation would be economically feasible in the USA?
 
aclockworkorange said:
I know oddball had a pair or two aros spawn. GL with your search!


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Good to know!

This is all I can find evidence of in the USA though, nothing commercial. I'm kicking around the idea of trying to run a small scale aro farm in my spare time once I'm out of the army. I never understood why no one in the States has tried to isolate and breed the batik or high shine gold jars or the high shine blue base leis or the high shine silvers. Breeding blacks should speak for itself IMO. There's probably as much beauty to be had in the two USA legal Scleropages, as anything that can be had with formosus, it just seems like no one tries to do it. :/
 
The first Asians were bred in large vats indoors back in the mid 80's. They were in what appeared to be above ground swimming pools with a window in the side. My point is, it could be done anywhere in the country that way if you had a large warehouse.
 
Chicxulub said:
Good to know!

This is all I can find evidence of in the USA though, nothing commercial. I'm kicking around the idea of trying to run a small scale aro farm in my spare time once I'm out of the army. I never understood why no one in the States has tried to isolate and breed the batik or high shine gold jars or the high shine blue base leis or the high shine silvers. Breeding blacks should speak for itself IMO. There's probably as much beauty to be had in the two USA legal Scleropages, as anything that can be had with formosus, it just seems like no one tries to do it. :/
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If you do that, ill try to be a customer


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Would think the only place possibly warm enough to do it outside in ponds would be in Florida. Unfortunately they are illegal with the exception of silvers. The cost of breeding indoors would likely prohibit anyone from making any money doing such, as I believe arowana only spawn once a year.
 
this guy from Alaska was a so called "breeder" of all the aros you can think of including asains. I emailed him and he never emailed back personally, except for a catalog.
Scam.
 
I had a pair of silvers spawn for me back in the late 70s but, not by any of my design. They just answered their own call to nature. I never considered trying to culture silvers since raising them in the US costs way more than field collecting them and shipping stripped young to the US markets.
Now that black aros are so high in pricing than they were 30 years ago, they may be worth culturing at small scale. But, chances are they won't be because the return per square foot of culture maintenance area requirements will be much less than what can be gained from other species (like rays, discus, fancy goldfish, cichlids, etc.).
 
Oddball said:
I had a pair of silvers spawn for me back in the late 70s but, not by any of my design. They just answered their own call to nature. I never considered trying to culture silvers since raising them in the US costs way more than field collecting them and shipping stripped young to the US markets.
Now that black aros are so high in pricing than they were 30 years ago, they may be worth culturing at small scale. But, chances are they won't be because the return per square foot of culture maintenance area requirements will be much less than what can be gained from other species (like rays, discus, fancy goldfish, cichlids, etc.).
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What size tank/pond were the silvers in when they bred?


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