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    wild Neon Tetras?

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    Hi,
    Neon Tetras have been bred by farms for pretty long. And the quality has dropped. They usually live for about a year plus in my tanks. And sometimes their spines become crooked etc.
    However for Cardinal Tetras, some of mine have been in my tanks for 2.5 years already and still healthy. And they are wild caught ones.
    I wonder if there wild caught Neon Tetras available in any LFS? Would they live as long and healthy?
    koah fong
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    Recently saw some wild rummy noses - selling at a relatively high price. But I guess the catch is how does one tell if it's the real "wild"thing ???

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    Don't think there is any, unless contaminant from other wild tetras.

    I saw some online advertisements of oversea LFS, they actually made special request of getting the fish(ask the collector to purposely go and collect and ship them)...result in very expensive price. Higher than Na. espei.

    Most of the tetras, once SEA farms statred breeding them, the wild specimens would lose its value to most of the fish keepers(in general) except some really hardcore hobbyists).

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    Practically speaking its simply not economical to get them imported all the way from the place of origin.

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    I find that these fish farmers should try to import wild stock to strengthen the breed of their existing ones. Otherwise too much inbreeding.
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    these fish farmers do have internal trade with one another.
    which means...........

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    [quote:dcced44dec="juggler"]I find that these fish farmers should try to import wild stock to strengthen the breed of their existing ones. Otherwise too much inbreeding.[/quote:dcced44dec]
    I think they like it this way ... so that they don't have to wait for 2.5 yrs for repeat business

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    Think fish farms will just go for the way that generate the most profit, which i think is just plain in-breeding.

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    Vincent

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    Re:

    [quote:9bbe55a510="TanVincent"]Think fish farms will just go for the way that generate the most profit, which i think is just plain in-breeding.

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    Vincent[/quote:9bbe55a510]

    Why would 'plain in-breeding' generate 'the most profit'?
    One of the side-effect of in-breeding is obviously high infant mortality which set the farmers back financially.

    I can agree that by having fishes with shorter livespan, sales can go up.

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