Who here breeds SW fish?

**MLBfan** · 05-07-2012, 11:32 PM

I am just interested in breeding SW fish eventually. I would like to know:

1. What fish you have bred?
2. How hard is it?
3. Where do you get your information?
4. What books do you recommend?
5. Any other helpful info.

Note for mods, can someone edit the poll to close on June 1st and say, " For SW keepers ONLY! Do you breed SW fish?"

Thanks

**hockeyhead019** · 05-08-2012, 12:59 AM

The only people on here who have bred are Cliff with Bangaii Cardinals and I think Miltonic bred some clowns and tried raising the young.

From everything I've read it's extremely difficult to raise SW fish from their young stages, otherwise there would be a lot of captive bred SW fish on the market, but there isn't. It's just tough to do from everything I've read.

Do some google searches on a fish you'd be interested in breeding. I know clowns and cardinals are the easiest to do in the home aquarium so you might wanna start there

**Cliff** · 05-08-2012, 01:23 AM

I answered yes just before I lost my internet connection

If you would have had a maybe option I would have picked that one instead. I’m a want-to-be successful breeder of banggi cardinals as I have a breeding pair. My only problem is my current set-up. The other inhabitants of the tank always seem to get to the fry before I can remove them. It’s happen 6 or 7 times now. The wife and I have been talking about setting up another Marine tank. If we do, we will move the cardinals into that tank to avoid any fry predators

A few months back (maybe a even a year ago) Coral Magazine had one issue with a lot of articles about breeding Banagii cardinals as well as one issue about breeding clown fish

http://www.coralmagazineus.com/

**Surfdog** · 05-08-2012, 04:19 AM

I am thinking of trying to Breed Zebra Morays in a few years...
Much to learn 1st...

**glarior** · 05-08-2012, 04:33 PM

I plan on trying to breed cat or bamboo sharks. Like surfdog said... lots to learn.

**MLBfan** · 05-08-2012, 05:09 PM

Currently, I'm in the process of learning more and more about SW via books and the internet.

However, I am sort of wondering what can be bred and is somewhat difficult so I can have an idea of stocking.

**glarior** · 05-08-2012, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by MLBfan

Currently, I'm in the process of learning more and more about SW via books and the internet.

However, I am sort of wondering what can be bred and is somewhat difficult so I can have an idea of stocking.

Glad you are out to gain more knowledge! Best way!

Try this

If it was me I would... make a list of all the fish I would enjoy then rank them from most to least liked. Then research breeding for those fish/species and go down the list. Hopefully, it will help narrow down the list and would learn a lot more about their breeding needs.

If you do find species to breed you have to make a post and keep us updated. I would be very interested in your approach and success.

Edit: I did read clowns and cardinalfish are able to bred. I didn't know lion fish would breed to... hrmmmm got me thinking