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We may work on some bandit angelfish in the future. Right now there is a private breeder in Hawaii named Karen Brittain that has had some success with them and when you see them available captive-bred in the hobby they're usually from her.@Biota_Marine any plans to breed bandit angels? And if so, do you have brood stock for them?
On a similar npte, how do you aquire brood stock if the hawaii ban is in effect? Special permits?
The next batch going up will notify all of those on the waitlist- we just had a few customers that contacted us minutes after the first batch went out and it was pretty unfortunate they waited so long for the species to be available again.Thanks! Is there a way to see where I may be in the waiting list?
Those aren't a species we currently have broodstock for at the moment. Right now we're working on other zebrasoma species as well as some close adjacent species.Has Biota looked into captive breeding chevron tangs?
I should have just a couple Royal Grammas going up this coming Tuesday. Coral beauties are back in production at our Palau facility we're just waiting for them to grow out to sellable sizing, likely a month or so.Any idea when Royal Gramma's and Coral Beautys may be back in stock?
Are you working on any new kinds of fish? If if so what new kinds of fish are you guys working on breeding?Hey y'all,
Tom and I want to start to incorporate more customer feedback and questions onto our social media. I get tons of emails and messages about our animals, process, and ideas across all of our platforms and I was hoping to open up a discussion. We also want to do some short form videos on our Facebook and Instagram answering some of your questions you may have for us. Let some questions fly and I'll answer as many as best as I can and we're hoping to choose a few every week to give a bit more in depth answers on our Facebook and Instagram.
I appreciate all the questions and responses.
Tons! If you follow our social media platforms we announce new species all the time. Many times they're projects with minimal successes that we sometimes use to guage interest in various species or families.Are you working on any new kinds of fish? If if so what new kinds of fish are you guys working on breeding?
White yellow tang?! I can only imagine how much those will go for!So we do have a section called "Ocean Oddities" which we should advertise a bit better, but that is our WYSIWYG section. Usually when we get larger batches of clams we pick out an assortment of 50 or so and grab some nice photos of them under daylight lighting. We plan to also use this in the future with oddities or morphs that are a bit different from our normal stock, like a white yellow tang or clown trigger with stripes instead of spots.
We recently added some crocea clams to the site and the photos under those products are actually the exact one's customers can expect to receive (https://shop.thebiotagroup.com/products/ultra-grade-crocea-clam). I separated those baskets for retail customers so it's going to be exactly one either shown in that photo or one that may have gotten cut off. For other clams the stock photos we take are from our population and there isn't a ton of variation with the derasa and squamosa.
Oh the white damsel would be cool!Tons! If you follow our social media platforms we announce new species all the time. Many times they're projects with minimal successes that we sometimes use to guage interest in various species or families.
Some of the most recent were our white damselfish and lawnmower blennies where we only got a batch though but it seems like most hobbyist are very interested in more lawnmower blennies. We also had a suprise small batch of flame angelfish come through our Hawaii facility.
We actively have broodstock for a bunch of the dwarf angelfish, various zebrasoma, tons of different blennies, gobies, damsels, anthias, and others. Many of the species we target are either ones that have a need for the hobby due to popularity like the yellow tang or due to low success wild collected rates like with our mandarins and court jesters.
Lol I wouldn't get too excited of the tens to hundreds of thousands of yellow tang we've been we've only seen two anomolies, 1 white yellow tang and 1 orange yellow tang. The orange ended up growing out and looking normal in our systems and the white mostly ended up as very pale. Maybe in a few years we'll be looking at some designer ones like we have with our cuban basslets.White yellow tang?! I can only imagine how much those will go for!
I actually have 4 of these guys left, they are very aggressive even for a damselfish but a biologist friend of ours let us know they're actually a species known for farming algae in the wild.Oh the white damsel would be cool!
How big to they come?I actually have 4 of these guys left, they are very aggressive even for a damselfish but a biologist friend of ours let us know they're actually a species known for farming algae in the wild.
White Damsel
Dischistodus perspicillatus - Biota Palau is announcing another new cultured species! The White damselfish is very rare in the aquarium trade. This species is an exceptionally hardy saltwater fish and perfect for the damselfish collector or large aquariums with other aggressive species and...shop.thebiotagroup.com
They're all about 2" right nowHow big to they come?
We haven't had success with them yet but the only wild fish we have in our whole Florida facility is a Yellow Eye Kole tang. It's one species we hope to eventually offer themAny chance of yellow eye kole tangs coming from Hawaii?