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Originally posted by triggerfish1976
jmaneyapanda,
I understand what you're saying but at the same time pretty much every animal that we keep in our aquariums is having to apapt to a captive environment since we cannot even come close to duplicating their natural environement regardless of what most of us think. The unfortunate aspect of being in this hobby is we are "forcing" fish, corals, and inverts to have to adjust to living in a much more controllered habitat that meet our needs moreso than theirs in order to be able to keep them for our amusement and curiosity. Most fish collected for our trade never even come close to living as long as they do in the wild due to improper husbandry and the ones that are taken care of properly still only live for a fraction of their wild counterparts lives.
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Yes, but we are talking about 2 entirely different things. Adaptation does occur ferquently and readily. Adaptation is the wild fish coming and living for years in our aquarium, eating the food we provide, maybe even breeding in our tanks. But, if we are saying that, as a blanket statement, wild caught individuals cannot adapt to condition X, while captive bred ones can, then this is totally different. You are assigning some cumulative advantage to the second group, based on the fact that they are captive bred. Whether it be they can tolerate higher temps, or eat different diets, or whatever. This type of significant adaptation of the biological process cannot happen in the short term. This is my only point. As it relates to this discussion, we cannot state that wild caught interruptus (or hotumatuas, debelius, etc) cannot tolerate our temps of 80 degress, but captive berds miraculously have adapted the ability to do so.