wild caught fish

[One_Trick_Pony]

are they more difficult to keep then tank bread fish?

Otp

 

[CFC]

They can be a little more difficult to feed and need more attention paid to keeping the water parameters closer to those of their natural habitat but as a rule they are no more difficult to keep than their captive bred counterparts.

 

[Discus man]

they can also be very fussy on there tank mates if you have one thats not with them normally in the wild then you may have probls like not eating not normal movement and so on.

 

[chris allsop]

As above some refuce to eat.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Personally i disagree with people taking fish from the wild- there are thousands of types of fish already available in lfs's so taking fish from the wild yourself is unesarsary...

 

[Paul_MTS]

Personally i disagree with people taking fish from the wild- there are thousands of types of fish already available in lfs's so taking fish from the wild yourself is unesarsary...

depending on the type of plecs you have you better put them back in the wild then and maybe even the panda cories depending if they were tank bred or not!!

there's nothing wrong with taking fish from the wild IMO as long as there fairly young and then kept in proper conditions, rather than some of the idiots that end up with them!!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Yes but i bought them from my lfs- i think taking them directly out of the wild yourself is unesarsary when there are already so many fish being taken out for lfs's and breeders...

 

[One_Trick_Pony]

mnine come form lfs they just advertising them as wild caught!!!

 

[silvershark]

mnine come form lfs they just advertising them as wild caught!!!

i have to admit i didn't think that tropical freshwater species are readily available in the wilds of cheshire!

agree with the above tho, difficult on feeding etc

 

[Paul_MTS]

catching some fish from a river or buying from a LFS is all the same really except the difference in price and risk of contamination. comes down to the crunch that some of the fish are taken from the wild at some point or other!!

In my pond i have 4 weather loach i caught from a stream in devon when on holiday!! I also caught a eel but didn't think he would fit in too well!!

 

[vantgE]

In african cichlids the wild caught trade is an esential part of the hobby a wild caught or first and second generation fish are worth several times as much as tank bred ones. It is absolutely necesary to continue to take fish from the wild to reduce inbreeding and it's negative results, wild caughts tend to at lest in africans, have less color, be more delicate, and produce less fry then a tank bred fish but a first generation will have amazeing color and health compared to continusely tank bred fish

 

[jflowers]

The morality issue is a big one. lots of lfs fish are tank bred, some are not and hold an unusually large price, denisons barb for instance (though this has been bred recently, just the price does not know it yet).

If you can buy it for £1 -£5 its tank bred, if its a stupid price, it may be a wild caught fish, or a real oddball.

Jon

 

[jflowers]

In african cihlids the wild caught trade is an esntial oart of the hobby a wild caught or first and second generation fish are worth several times as much as tank bred ones. It is absolutely necesary to continue to take fish from the wild to reduce inbreeding and it's negative results, wild caughts tend to in africans have less color, be more delicate, and produce less fry then a tank bred fish but a first generation will have amazeing color and health compared to continuelsy tank bred fish

I would agree if they were going to be re-introduced at some point. Will they?

Jon

 

[vantgE]

No there not returned. Gone too edit that post for spelling too

More fish are wild caught than you thimk such as most tetras and cories

 

[Inchworm]

I can only speak from my experience, and that is with corydoras, but I would much rather have a wild caught fish than tank raised ones.

Wild caught corys, if they survive the rigors of transport from their native waters, seem to be larger and more colorful than fish that have been tank raised for several generations.

My wild caught bronze C. aeneus have a definite brownish coloration that is lacking from the others. Their fry, which are still young at this time, were brown for a month or so after hatching, while fry from my earlier spawns (from tank raised parents) were gray. I can now understand why they are called "bronze." Any future C. aeneus spawns that I allow to hatch will be from these fish only.

I've recently seen C. paleatus or peppered corys that were wild caught and their colors far surpassed any that I had seen before. Unfortunately, they were very ill and I had no quarantine tank, or they would have gone home with me for sure. If I see them again, they will be mine.