If someone has successfully conducted marine ornamental fish breeding,can you suggest a procedure to follow? Did you conduct environmental manipulations or induced breeding? Can you also suggest references I can look up?
I dont have a reference, but i have some suggestions.
I'll start with the fact that there is no universal method in breeding any fish including marine ornamental fishes without an understanding of the reproductive biology and environmental requirements.
First of all you have to have a species of interest, undertake a research on its ecology, habitat range, optimal salinity for mating and ionic nutrient quality of its environment, mating cues e.g. colour of female abdomen signifying gonad stage, foraging preferences and mating seasons and patterns.
When this is properly understood, laboratory trials may begin by introducing adult species from the field into culture tanks with predetermined salinity that must be sustained through some flow-through method. Mating trials may even involve the use of hormone injections to the fish but all these are subject to a thorough study on the species of interest.
I advise you to read "Marine Ornamental Species: Collection, Culture & Conservation" by James C. Cato, Christopher L. Brown
Hi
These articles may help you:
1. http://www.idosi.org/gjms/gjms3(1)/7.pdf
2. http://www.nda.agric.za/doaDev/sideMenu/animalAndAquacultureProduction/docs/marine.pdf
3. http://www.spc.int/DigitalLibrary/Doc/FAME/FFA/Reports/FFA_1992_055.pdf
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Dola
Hello, Dr. ike Olivotto from Universtita Politecnica delle Marche has several research in the field, as well Dr Joan Holt from Univ of Texas at Austin. I could recommend you check this files:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044848603002072
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044848604007252
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044848606000354
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044848605001912
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