About a month ago a Gentoo penguin has hatched :
Great news. It is long overdue that marine temperate zone and marine tropical fish are bred more regularly in major aquaria to reduce dependency on imports and provide for the long term needed expertise and experience in improving captive-breeding of marine fish and ensure sustainable populations can be maintained (and hopefully in future may allow conservation action in situ with experience, resources, knowledge and expertise built up with their captive husbandry and management.Océanopolis Brest have recently announced that they have successfully bred boarfish Capros aper, an East Atlantic cool-water marine species. Eggs have regularly been laid and for the past year attempts have been made to rear the young. So far this month, nineteen young have been successfully reared.
This success is part of a larger project to develop breeding knowledge on the species kept in the aquarium.
Information comes from the Océanopolis Brest Facebook page.
To note, this is not the first successful breeding of this species in captivity - the first successful rearing of a boarfish to a larger juvenile stage happened in 2008 at Toledo Zoo:
Captive Propagation of the Boarfish
You're right but the article is accurate on lots of numbers so two possibilities : it missed to mention another transfer or they made an error on total number. Make your choice10.2+2.3=12.5-2.0=10.5+0.2=10.7.
10.7 birds right?
Is any breaded seal still on show it Brest? Where and how to see it?
It would be my main reason to go off the way to visit the aquarium.
The breeding success with the angel fish species is nothing less but spectacular for a public aquarium. It be interesting to know how they have created the preconditions for breeding these colourful fish species that are known hard to get accomodated to aquaria in multiple specimen set ups. Well that is the conventional knowledge.