Re: our impact

Hi

Thank you Marc for your reply about my Bengali Cardinal.

I to feel a bit guilty about keeping fish. I have had a full tank for a
long while now and then I lost one of my tangs, he had got a bit big for the
tank. So I bought a copper band (beautiful), my large yellow tang started
on him as soon as he was in the tank, in spite of a total change of rocks.
So I put a *** of glass across one end of the tank, hoping the tang would
get used to it, but he didn't. So I took him back and although they were
not happy they took it back. I bought 2 scooter blennies, he took to them
and were fine,then I bought the Bengal Cardinal, he had to hid all the time
in some plastic weed that I put in for him to hide. He didn't move from the
weed. So I thought if there were two of them the tank would leave them
alone. He has a little go if they got in his way but nothing serious, they
started to swim round the tank together, Success at last. Day 3 the
original one I was sorry for started on the new little one and bit all of
his tail
, so now I have the new one in a breading trap so the old one cant get him.
The old one is patrolling the breading trap and trying to get to him, he has
been in there for 24 hours now and the one I was worried about is now the
aggressor. My partner is watching all this and thinks I am cruel. Any help
would be appreciated.

June

"Tidepool Geek" <big_smegma@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Mislav" <m@xxxx> wrote in message news:dehd64$rcu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> I seriously doubt that the reason of barren reefs is due to the aquarium
>> trade. If those fish there are cought by net, without cyanide it can not
>> seriously endanger fish population. The number of fish caught for aquarim
>> trade is insignificant compared to tons of fish caught for consumation
>> every day.
>
> Hi Mislav,
>
> I'm sure that you (and Marc) are correct that the aquarium trade doesn't
> contribute too much to the decline in reef health. IMHO: That's not the
> same
> as saying that there's no problem with the trade in wild caught aquarium
> specimens.
>
> As you point out, some aquarium fish are caught by humane and efficient
> means with low by-catch rates and low collateral damage rates. OTOH: There
> are still a fair number of professional collectors out there who use
> chemicals to increase their yield and, coincidentally, probably kill more
> animals than they collect; to include killing or damaging (which comes to
> the same thing) animals other than the target species.
>
> I won't pretend to understand all the intricacies of the aquarium fish
> trade
> but it seems unlikely that anyone can tell how a given fish was originally
> caught by the time it has been through a chain of buyers, exporters,
> importers, wholesalers, and vendors. [I would be happy to be corrected on
> this point!] Further, there are a number of occurrences of wild caught
> animals being sold for which there is insufficient husbandry information
> or
> incorrect/incomplete identification. That sort of thing often leads to a
> specimen starving or otherwise dieing after awhile in the home aquarium.
>
> OTOH: Captive bred fish are fairly easy to identify since such animals are
> virtually always identified in the seller's advertising. It's also far
> easier to include correct I.D. and husbandry info for a captive bred
> animal
> since the breeder obviously needs to know that stuff in order to have a
> successful operation.
>
> My bottom line is that, insignificant or not, the professional collecting
> of
> wild fish and inverts is fraught with enough problems or potential
> problems
> that we, as consumers, should avoid supporting the trade as much as
> possible.
>
> Greenly yours,
>
> TPG
>


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