pretty sure they would do fairly okay for themselves in the southern states, but you're right. I'm just saying that more **** should be banned than already is and then cited a reason for why I think that.
+1 on this. Look at all the arapaimas that are sold compared to the few that are adults and thriving. I can count the amount of happy adult pimas in private collections on 1 hand and maybe a few extra fingers but that compared to the thousands of babies sold is nothing.
I don't think they will ever be of the list because yes they are being bred but none are being set free so the wild population will never recover
They can't rerelease captive breed asian aros and none nowadays are purebreed. malaysian gold xback are not 100% pure blood as it's been mix many times with RTG to give it a massive body shape. Wild caughts malaysian gold xback are have slender body shape almost like a body of a leichardti but you see malaysian gold xback being sold with massive body. That was the first purpose but the early result turns out to be the hbrtg. Then cross it again with malaysian gold xback for many generation back and forth. Some even have the super red blood line in them to give them the wider or longer pectoral fins. So rereleasing them back is not a good idea as they are now man made. Also none of the farms seems to want to put an effort to breed wild caughts as the population are so few in the wild that you end up inbreeding even wild caught. Causing it to have many health problems once it's in the wild.
Because the captive bred types are nothing like the wild strains and by letting captive bred strains free it may mess up what's left
