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Originally Posted by NATIVEVAMAN  Rabbit fish might be appropriate if there infant mortality rate wasnt so high.In the wild entire broods become dinner.Captive bred fish seem to fare better with something like 4 out of 20 surviving.As breeders learn about the fish the survival rate will increase. |
True, although FWIW, our lfs has a separate breeding tank and successfully turns out large broods each time - the cool thing about Banggai's is that they start out in life exactly the same as their grown shape and color, only much smaller.
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Originally Posted by JustPhish Simple...PRICE. Many people constantly tout about captive raised, responsibilities etc etc, however when it comes time to stand in line at the register 90% of those people contradict everything they said with their wallet.
If your LFS had two different tanks, one with captive raised banggais for $30 each and one with wild caught banggais for $10 each, which do you think is going to be emptied first? Even if the LFS tells the customers "You know those wild ones don't really live very long. There's a good chance it's going to die." I bet 90% of the customers are either not going to care, or are going to say to themselves "This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm a fish keeping God and I can keep these alive for sure. They won't die on me". then poof a net scoops up 5 of the wild caught. Perhaps that's not what would happen if you were the customer, but maybe you want 5 and the cost of 5 captive bred ones at $150 is just too great over the $50 the wild ones will cost you.
Let's also not forget that the people who cruise the boards and such represent only a tiny fraction of the number of people actually involved in the hobby. The vast majority of folks are not doing anything to keep themselves well informed. |
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Originally Posted by NATIVEVAMAN Phish, the plain truth is most people dont know or dont care,they vote with there wallet.I guess also like you said,if they knew would it make a difference.I will bet on no. |
Is the difference in price really that large? I'm asking because I haven't really noticed - but I think the argument that people will typically buy the cheaper ones and that most people are not on the forum's is definitely true. I was in one of the lfs' I don't get to often, and while I was looking around, this guy comes in and asks how much a particular coral cost. I couldn't see what he was looking at but when the lfs guy told him it was around $75, his reply "that's too expensive - I want something around $20". The lfs guy explained he couldn't just "cut him off a piece", and the "customer" was pretty miffed about the whole thing and walked out.
My lesson was that there ARE plenty of people who don't care. On the other hand, it's good to know thet they are a large number who do get on the forum's and are interested in doing things right.