Captive bred annularis angelfish from Bali Aquarich are real and they’re already here

By on Jul 11, 2012

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The captive bred annularis angelfish that were teased by Bali Aquarich back in May have already arrived in America and in decent numbers too. Marinelife dealers in L.A. let us know that Pacific Aqua Farms (PAF) got in some real nice and tiny baby captive bred annularis angelfish last week. Following up with PAF owner Dave Palmer we learned that Bali Aquarich has already begun to ship out their home-made Pomacanthus annularis angelfish. 

A good number of the captive bred annularis angelfish from Bali Aquarich have gone on to Sustainable Aquatics where most of them will be grown out some more and further conditioned for life in a home aquarium. Whereas before we were only able to report on this story with videos of the groundbreaking commercial production of captive bred annularis angelfish, Bali Aquarich has shared these gorgeous pictures of the tee-ninecy Pomacanthus annularis. We can now see what they looked like at 15 days, 36 days, and their current size around two months old.

Providing the captive bred annularis angelfish to the marine aquarium hobby is yet another feather in the cap for Bali Aquarich who already brought us captive bred pinnatus batfish, picasso clarki clowns, picasso sebae clowns and this super picasso clownfish. We suppose it won’t be long before Bali Aquarich  commercializes the captive breeding of some other classic aquarium fish, our bets are on emperor angelfish and some wacky looking maroon clownfish coming next.

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A batch of captive bred juvenile annularis angelfish, large enough to eat pelleted food at this size

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blue ring angelfish
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  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.rhyne Andrew Rhyne

    Jake, I was just visting Su and his operation and he is surely going to provide a lot of species to the trade. The scale at which Bali Aquarich is working would be nearly impossible to replicate in the U.S, E.U. or other locations where land and labor are too expensive. It is an interesting and impressive operation. I wonder if the market is big enough for someone to produce these fish in large numbers on regular intervals.

  • XanAvalon

    what kind of price are we looking at when these get down to the retail level?

  • http://www.facebook.com/sgasaaa Scott Groseclose

    Jake, wouldn’t it be cool if someone started up a list of captive breed fish species, who 1st pioneered it and when it took place? Maybe someone has access to such info…

  • mpedersen

    Scott, there’s actually a pretty solid dynamic list maintained via the MBI; it was compiled from several lists, questionable items were even fact checked, and then going forward, any “new” species that gets done, well, the council members are all pretty active breeders so one of us invariably submits the info for review and inclusion in the database of “ranked” species. Here’s a direct link to that set of search results –
    http://www.mbisite.org/Species.aspx?sd=true