Hello, been a while since I've been on this site. Haven't had much time/space to do much with aquariums during the past few years, but someday in the (hopefully) near future, I'd like to set up a monster fish tank. However, I really believe in only buying captive bred animals. I was wondering what species are readily available as captive bred, and if you could recommend places to buy these. I am aware of Australian lungfish and some bichirs that are occassionally captive bred, but that's it.
What Species Are Bred in Captivity?
- Thread starter crypticmonk
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There are plenty of aquarium fish species now being captive bred. Sometimes I browse The Wetspot website and they have plenty of fish listed as captive bred or tank raised.
Not sure about the Lungfish or large catfish .
There is a member that bred the Longnose Gar. I'm positive that some Piranha are captive bred. A member has Redbelly Piranha fry for sale.
I’d say 90% of all fish in this hobby are captive bred. Name a fish you want and more than likely it’s captive bred.
Not sure about things like piraiba or goonch, but things like rtc, tsn or pangasius are regularly captive bred for food reasons, and occasionally spill over into the hobby.
Almost all senegal bichirs seen in stores are captive-bred. They have shorter, stubbier heads (sometimes "frog eyes") and smaller adult sizes as compared to wild-caught ones which have a more snake-like head and larger max size.
Endlicherii and ornates are commonly available as captive-bred specimens as well.