aquacultured livestock

[bkiba]

Please post some good sites / suppliers for aquacultured fish, corals, and other inverts (esp anenomes) (and LR too). I felt so guilty after buying my LR for a 29 gal setup (which I will keep forever now) that I can't even think about buying coral or anenomes from a LFS without a guarantee about its origin. Due to a recent tank-holiday-tragedy I will also need to restock my poor fishies So post away!! thanks!

[artful-dodger]

Many of the big online retailers either specialize in bred or raised animals. InlandAquatics, ClownFishDirect, LiveAquaria for a few have specific sections devoted to tank raised/captive bred fish. Others (such as MarineDeportLive) note them on the individual listing.

As to corals, many/most are available as frags from existing colonies, many online vendors advertising multiple generations of captive propagation.

Anemones, on the other hand, I don't of anyone actually commercially culturing them on a predicatable basis...they are a bit of a different problem. However, there are frequently posts in the local forums (and this one) of people/LFSs with anemone divisions available for sale. Given the lifespam of most harvested anemones sold into the retail channel, getting a split from a captive one seems to be the only responsible way to go. (Having killed my share of anemones back in the undergravel 80s, I have no immediate plans to add any now that I'm reefing...)

[GreasyMidget]

i would like to know also

[Phillips]

Our local reef club has a listing of aquaculture companies on their web page:
http://www.seabay.org/_aquaculture.htm

[wayne in norway]

I wouldn't feel too guilty about the live rock. Last time I was in the Red Sea I saw several thousands of tons of what we could call live rock being used to make a breakwater and a bunch more tons being dumped at building sites. Make your purchase rather trivial, especially as you probably paid more than they did for a lorrload.

[MiddletonMark]

About 6 months ago I made this list, probably a couple places gone by now:



http://www.seacrop.com/

http://www.reefaholics.org/

http://www.clamsdirect.com/

http://www.goochscorals.com/

http://www.drmaccorals.com/

http://premiumaquatics.com/

http://www.asplashoflife.com/

http://www.thelogicalreef.com/

http://www.o2manyfish.com/

http://www.thesea.org/catalog/index.php

http://www.roesmarineworld.com/

http://www.reefscience.com/

http://www.reefdweller.com/

http://rainbowcorals.com/

http://aquadesignz.com/

http://www.reefermadness.us/

http://adriansreeftank.homestead.com/adrianspage.html

http://www.aquaculturedcorals.com/

http://www.coraldynamics.com/

http://www.reeffarmers.com/

http://www.ecorals.tv/

http://www.exoticreefs.us/

http://www.phishybusiness.com/

http://www.shawnbennett.com/

http://24.129.138.226:81/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT

http://www.spsfrags.com/

http://www.upscales.com/home.ihtml

http://www.aquaprop.com/

http://www.theaquariumcity.com/salt...ragmentlist.htm

http://www.coralsandbar.com/index.html

http://www.soutassaltwater.com/ AKA http://www.reefstuff.com/

http://blowfishaquatics.com/

http://cquarium.com/

http://www.coralfragz.com/

http://www.roozens.com/

http://www.quality-corals.com/

http://www.tpaquarium.com/

http://www.justphish.com/saltwater/sps/sps.htm

http://www.tridacnareef.com/Index.html

http://www.exoticfish.com/

http://zoomonster.com/

http://robsreef.com

From this thread. I'd search the Vendor Experiences forum under `frags' and I'd bet you'd get a lot more. I'd always suggest searching on a new vendor there before ordering.
Here's the old thread:
http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=322146

[thesmith]

Just bumping MiddletonMark's great list....

[UnderwaterExotic]

Nice one!

[MartinH]

Just thought I'd chime in...for Canadians there is Seanic Aquariums in Guelph, Ontario...they sell CB seahorses.

[monkey61672]

great topic, I was just teaching my students about harvesting vs cultered species....