Why can't tigers be bred ?

[topdog78]

Just thought I'd spark a bit of intelligent discussion!

Virtually every aquarium fish can be artificially bred, I.e eggs are extracted from the female and sperm/milt taken from a male and cultured into fry, so why on earth has this not been done with datnoids ?!?
Considering they are such a sought after and (at larger sizes) a very expensive fish you would of thought somebody would of achieved it by now !

Discuss....

 

[krichardson]

A start would be being able to tell the sexes apart and learning the right conditions for breeding..It's hard to believe someone somewhere is not getting it accomplished.

 

[UnstoppableJayD]

Not enough Barry white....

 

[rayluc]

with all the indo dats that are always available now, i bet they are being commercially bred

 

[strollo22]

Indo's are Absolutely being bred in captivity. I don't believe there is enough concern to breed ST's. They eat them, why would they care to breed them?


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[krichardson]

So they can have more to eat after they've fished for and eaten the last one in the lake?

 

[strollo22]

So they can have more to eat after they've fished for and eaten the last one in the lake?

Yea I suppose. Even if they are breeding ST's, it will be a very long time until we see them. I'm going to figure out how to sex Datnoids


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[krichardson]

Go for it man.

 

[T1KARMANN]

Indo's are Absolutely being bred in captivity. I don't believe there is enough concern to breed ST's. They eat them, why would they care to breed them?


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They are not being bred

When ST was available you used to see tanks full of 1" for sale that didn't mean they was being captive

Indo have a much larger fish location than ST ever had

It will take a good 20 years of over fishing IT before it has a big impact on the wild population like it has had on ST

Just because you see loads for sale doesn't mean they are captive bred
In fact it's a bad thing we see so many for sale as it shows the impact it's having

I find it very sad we see so many for sale
Out of the thousands we see buying on this forum alone I wonder how many make it to adult size

Take a look at ST thousands was sold less than 10 years ago how many do we see now just a handful






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[Arowana1]

That is a worthy idea though. It would be great to watch South East Asian countries start to breed or farm Datnoids.