[TheOldSalt]

Yep, that's big trouble waiting to happen if it catches on. I have a feeling that they won't be able to produce enough specimens to have a significant impact on the hobby as a whole, but I shudder to think what may happen if they do.

Do any of you remember a product a few years ago called "Magic Ocean?" This was a concoction used instead of salt which allowed the keeping of fresh and saltwater fish in the same tank. Yes, it really worked. What a mess it caused for a little while before it was finally removed from the market. Fish that couldn't understand each other, carrying diseases alien to each other, were being housed in the same tanks in some wholesalers facilities in the name of convenience. What it actually led to was catastrophe. It was a nifty little product for demonstrating osmotic pressure and such, but it's a good thing it finally died a quiet death.

Now we might have freshwater tangs and damsels and wrasses, eh? OY! A lot of hucksters are going to rip off a lot of people soon.

Are you guys aware of a French company with a name which translates as "Aquafish?" These guys specialize in raising the fry of species normally impossible to keep in aquaria due to strict, specialized food requirements. By denying the fish any access to their special food of choice during their development, the fish are forced to remain unspecialized feeders. This is just fine and dandy in that it finally lets us keep things like Meyeri and Ornate Butterflyfishes, but it also leads to people getting the wrong idea about the needs of these species. Ripoffs aside, the availability of keep-able specimens can only lead to an increase in demand for those species, specially-raised or not.

Nothing but trouble.