Colourful Siamese tiger to share
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Gorgeous ST!!! Very interesting how the color changes with the different background and bottom colors. Mine is currently in a black back with almost white sand bottom. He is somewhere between yellow and white based now. I can't wait til it gets as big as yours.
selki;3394348; said:
I wish that if these were fish native to the US. Our scientist would have it figured out. Maybe a ban on importing and catching them is all for the best. It may be the only thing the governments in SE Asia can do. Striped bass were all but extinct in the Chesapeake Bay but after a ban on fishing they are back in great numbers. I wish our government could help but wouldn't know where to begin. Sorry to derail the thread, your fish is beautiful.
classic-chassis;3404366; said:
We can't by them easily here now. We can't even get ITs muchless STs. Apparently they have been pretty much wiped out. Isn't that the case? Are you saying that if they banned catching them people would do it anyway for the monetary gain?
Yes without a shadow of doubt. I'm going to buy a dat today from a place called Chatuchak market. Everything is sold there. Commonly endangered species of all types of small animals are available, from birds to fish. Even when it comes to sport fishing Thais do not practice catch and release. I have been fishing Shadow or giant snake head in the north, lots of boats were in the lake. I caught a 20 inch fish and released it, the driver of the small boat thought i was mad. There are nearly no Shadow left in the lake i went to. Fish can be sold or eaten.
It is sad to say but money rules here, most endangered animals are sold under the noses of the cops who take a cut.
It is sad to say but money rules here, most endangered animals are sold under the noses of the cops who take a cut.
classic-chassis;3407404; said:
so true, Thai Gov't is corrupt, had a Civil war about 9 months ago between the crooks and the good people. A few innocent people died in one of the 2 major airports.. sad... I hope all of Thailand can come to know God so they can enter his kingdom of Zion
Going way off track for which I am sorry. I wouldn't call it a civil war. I would call it a bourgeois minority showing displeasure with a democratically elected poor populist majority rule, also no one died in any airports. In addition the people who hijacked the airports and brought the country to it’s knees were and still are backed by the justice courts, is that not the highest form of corruption? Creating civil unrest for private gain?
Fact is it doesn’t matter who is in power in this part of the world, they’re all corrupt. The paradox is no one can be slightly successful without being tainted along the way. This means that every person in power has skeletons in their closets and has to be even more corrupt when they reach the top. Otherwise they’ll never get there. Cops earn $250 a month, high ranked officials, and politicians including the P.M earn about $2800 a month. You can’t drive a Benz and live in a mansion on that kind of money, you need to fund your life style some how.
When it comes to fish, or any other type of plant or animal that is in trouble, it’s supply and demand. If people want the number of Siam tigers to increase in the Chao Pharya River and tributaries stop buying them, even more so if the prices of them go up because they are rare, all that does is increase the hunting of them because the people who catch them are not criminals, they’re just so poor they’ll do anything to eat rice.
Yesterday at Chatuchak market i saw, what i believe to be siam tigers. They were all less than 10 inches, more like 6 or 7. They were all $150 up. I couldn't take pictures.
My NTT cost $3.........
Fact is it doesn’t matter who is in power in this part of the world, they’re all corrupt. The paradox is no one can be slightly successful without being tainted along the way. This means that every person in power has skeletons in their closets and has to be even more corrupt when they reach the top. Otherwise they’ll never get there. Cops earn $250 a month, high ranked officials, and politicians including the P.M earn about $2800 a month. You can’t drive a Benz and live in a mansion on that kind of money, you need to fund your life style some how.
When it comes to fish, or any other type of plant or animal that is in trouble, it’s supply and demand. If people want the number of Siam tigers to increase in the Chao Pharya River and tributaries stop buying them, even more so if the prices of them go up because they are rare, all that does is increase the hunting of them because the people who catch them are not criminals, they’re just so poor they’ll do anything to eat rice.
Yesterday at Chatuchak market i saw, what i believe to be siam tigers. They were all less than 10 inches, more like 6 or 7. They were all $150 up. I couldn't take pictures.
My NTT cost $3.........
