What Fish Are Suitablefor Breeding

[Turlock]

Hi,I'm looking return to fish keeping after a 20 odd year break,me and my dad used to keep a tropical tank when i was young.This time I eventually fancied having a crack at breeding,but having bought some books and done some research on the net it would appear that breeding marine fish in captivity is next to impossible except for a few species.I would much prefer to keep marine fish,but if it really is that difficult to get into breeding them then I might get going with a tropical setup.
Can anyone provide me with a list of suitable saltwater fish for breeding in a home aquarium,please. I was particular interested in Tangs,but it would appear that nobody has had any success these.

Thanks for reading

Mark

 

[RoyalGrammaPrincessHannah]

Nope no tangs are bred in captivity. A lot of species of clowns are commonly bred in captivity. Other than those, the only other thing I have seen commonly are a few different types of gobies and pseudochromis. But I am probably missing something.

 

[Navarre]

Clowns
Cardinals
Gobies
Flame angels
Seahorses
Marine Bettas


These are a few of he fish that are now being successfully bred in captivity.

Tangs alas are impossible at this present time to breed from, they require open wates and about 30 meters of depth, the female will shoot towards the surface followed by the male s where she will release her eggs into the water and the males will fertilise. The egges are then left to drop to the sand where eventually they will hatch and be part of the planktonic stage whilst the fish fry grows.
Im afraid there are many marine fish that have requirements similar to these and thus unless you have a tank that is considered huge even by puvlic aquarium standards then we will never have the luxury od breeding such animals.

 

[Turlock]

Thanks guys,that more than answered my query.I'm going to do some more looking up at the species on your list Navarre,I didn't even consider Seahorses,they sound more than interesting enough.

Thanks again.

Mark