Are Captive Bred Fish Hardier?

[Feet4Fish]

Any idea on how this could ever be possible. A controlled exposure therapy of sorts?

I think nutritional health is a given, I'm thinking more of immunity through exposure. As not to open up a can of worms, the theory of all of our wild caught fish being exposed to a plethora of diseases. Some believe ich is every tank, as do I, these captive bred fish would be more susceptible to such exposure.

Captive bred only would be the best.

 

[lion king]

Any idea on how this could ever be possible. A controlled exposure therapy of sorts?

I don't think it is possible. I think ich is really the only disease I have seen been dormant in a tank then suddenly appear. I've seen a singular or two fish in a specific tank have what would appear to be a break out of white spot, then mostly clear up and remain dormant again. While most other fish be completely unaffected, and in this case there is usually a stress trigger. When I've seen velvet, it has not discriminated, and it appears with a month or so, so qt of all your fish would give you a safe bet. Things like bacterial infections and parasites are much more easily controlled and individual.

 

[Feet4Fish]

We need fish immunizations!

 

[Paul B]

I think the future of fish keeping will be the availability of "Captive" bred fish but I think some of that will take place in the sea in fenced in areas of reefs.

I have seen dozens of places in the world where this could happen, especially in the South Pacific where almost no one lives and on some of those Islands, no one lives or ever lived due to a lack of fresh water or color TV.

Fish could be raised in lagoons with no predators in a natural state with their full immunity intact.
Lightning, heating and feeding will happen automatically for free and very little maintenance will be required except to collect fish and ship them.

Fish can reproduce very fast without predation and each fish can lay thousands or millions of eggs although I never counted them.

 

[Feet4Fish]

Sounds perfect!

 

[Bruce17]

Captive-bred fish are the way of the future. They are also much hardier, with many other benefits. Although captive-bred fish have been bred in mostly sterile environments due to them being raised in captivity in very tight conditions in aquariums with terrible water quality they are more hardie. The reason for this is because this is all the fish have ever known and they are comfortable and not stressed out when moved into your aquarium. A fish that is comfortable and not stressed out will be much more resistant to issues like ich etc. Also captive-bred fish eat pebbles from very early on even fish that are notoriously difficult to keep without special foods like filefish and dragonets.

I try to purchase all captive-bred fish now for the last few years and have noticed a major difference in the fish. I have alot of tanks and alot of tank raised fish now of many types even ones that very few people have like a tank raised kole tang and many angelfish. Firstly the fish eat whatever you put in the tank very greedily and are never picky. I have a mandarin dragonet bought from Biota and every time I feed pebbles it comes out and eats them like any other fish. Second, the fish are very very peaceful. I have 2 tank raised tangs in one 66 gallon tank and 2 tank raised tangs in a 500 gallon with 3 wild tangs with 5 tank raised angelfish and everyone gets along fine much more than wild tangs or angelfish do.

Never had any issues with captive-bred fish and even raised many thousand clownfish myself. Captive-bred fish are the way of the future.

If anyone has any questions please tag me on here.

What kind of captive bred tangs and angels do you have? I’m trying to get as many of the fish on my list as captive bred ones