如果农民种植了一定数量的水果或蔬菜,他们将无法合理地期望每种水果都具有可销售的质量。相同的原则适用于种植牲畜的农民,或饲养鸟类或猫或狗的宠物育种者,这已经很久了,我们开始期望盐水水族馆鱼的育种者的质量基线相似。
自从盐水水族馆的业余爱好提供了商业繁殖的小丑鱼,戈比斯和dottybacks以来,已经有30年的时间了,并且仅仅为了成就而向育种者提供了许多优惠和余地。业余爱好者最初给人留下了深刻的印象,即可以为与野生对应物的适度溢价一起出售圈养的Ocellaris小丑鱼和兰花dottybacks,为他们提供了平淡的颜色和一系列圈养的饲养文物的免费通行证。
最初,实际上利用了一些非物质文物来创建新的独特形式,例如拳头家用小丑鱼菌株,宽键Ocellaris并被阐述为创建我们今天所知道的小丑鱼菌株目录。但是,在该方程式的另一方面,通过许多不自然的选择,其他圈养的育种文物未经检查而导致一些后代不再显得“独特”,而是看起来更像是不应该将其推向市场的突变体。
The concessions we initially afforded captive breeders of marine fish has itself mutated into complete deference for fish that were not collected from the wild, regardless of how ‘inaccurate’ the fish might appear in terms of color, pattern, body shape, misshaped heads, fins, and flared gills. We’re now expected to accept captive bred yellow tangs preloaded with head and lateral erosion, yellow assessors that are green, pink anthias that are brown, angelfish with missing or twisted gill spines, yasha gobies with short fins, widebar clownfish with incomplete or narrow bars etc. etc.
We’re understanding enough to give breeders a wide berth to sort out some of the captive breeding kinks and artifacts from the first few years of working with new species, but it真的feels like fish breeders more motivated to make their fish different than they are at striving to improve the quality of their fish. Nowhere is this complacency more apparent than in domesticated clownfish strains – we’ve all seen the bulldog faces, dull colors and flared gills of many斑点,lightning maroons, snowflake, storms, and blizzard clownfish.
Many old salts of the aquarium hobby will remember the vibrant colors and perfect patterns of wild percula and clarkii clownfish that captive bred examples could never even come close to achieving. We’ve been harboring this resentment for highly inferior captive bred fish for some time but we reached a breaking point when we recently spotted a repulsive spotcinctus clownfish that was so deformed it looked like it was suffering – the hyper flared gills, angular face and muddy color reminded us of a longfin, short bodied oscar we saw ten years ago that looked like it was struggling to breathe and swim.
我们完全理解,鱼类育种者必须最大程度地利用收入并支付其谋生成本,我们不会判断他们将一些粗短的小丑鱼送往珍惜的市场。但是与此同时,圈养的繁殖鱼必须有一个基准的期望,尤其是当许多文化的唐人,甜蜜的和贝斯犬不仅要贵一些,而且还要指挥高级乘数,但仅仅因为没有拿着蜡烛来养成蜡烛,他们的自然野生祖先。
当涉及到没有水产养殖的鱼类,例如明显的神仙鱼,麦克劳克的小丑鱼和dejong的格拉玛时,没有太多批评的空间,但对于其他一切,鱼类育种者至少应该应该尝试to increase the quality of their fish. Culling captive bred fish that might grow up with life threatening and potentially painful deformities is the right and humane thing to do.
需要明确的是,一些育种者确实确实试图制造出最高品质的鱼,而这些盐水生产者表明了实际是什么possible在养殖的鱼类中,握住线条,以便其他人不会在水族馆中倒入相当于幼犬磨坊的水族馆。我们完全意识到,我们正在徘徊在危险的水域中,甚至少量饲养的育种鱼教堂,但我们相信有关于培养的盐水鱼类,畸形和圈养育种文物的质量的对话。