科学家在澳大利亚海洋科学学院正在寻找人工饲养岩石和刺龙虾以进行水族馆贸易和食物的前景。像许多巨型蛤农场一样，科学家的目标是这样的想法，即由于这些龙虾物种需要数年的时间才能成熟到食品市场的出售量，因此他们可以通过将少年出售给他们的现金流量来补充现金流量水族馆很小的时候。目的科学家认为，他们可以以每人零售价为150美元的多米金水族馆贸易来筹集刺龙虾和更干净的虾，但我们希望有所不同。尽管我们赞扬AIMS研究人员研究这项研究的努力，但他们的脑海中使清洁虾的价值超过100美元，如果他们只是看着澳大利亚海洋水族馆市场，他们将是正确的。
Cleaner shrimp are extremely expensive in Australia because they are really rare in the surrounding waters and they are not allowed to import them from the Indo-Pacific region where a fisherman probably gets a whole dollar for every four or five he catches. Furthermore, the movement is being spurred on by the idea that someone would want to buy a rock lobster when it is small and keep it for several years until it is ready to eat. We don’t know about you but if we kept and grew a spiny rock lobster as a pet for several years, we’d be hard pressed to throw it in a pot of boiling water for dinner. In any case, we encourage and welcome all convergences of the scientific and ornamental aquarium communities and perhaps in the future the successful rearing of spiny lobsters and cleaner shrimp could lead to breakthroughs in a wide range of other ornamental crustaceans.
