I captured a bizarre and cool beast!
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yes, once it;s in your tank, chances are it will be subjected to things that are not in the wild ... mainly all the illnesses and bad stuff that the fish has picked up from the other tanks where it was bread, and in the LFS tanks... needless to say, it is like a "puppy mill" or a chicken farm ... stuff like that where animals are bread in mass quantities, just to make as much profit as possible. it picks up all kinds of stuff, and releasing the fish back into the wild will then make fish in native waters sick (in theory)
basically, now that its been in your tank, you should either kill it, or try to keep it, and if it dies in your tank, thats better than putting it back in the water where it can potentially kill many more fish, or mess up an ecosystem ...
basically, now that its been in your tank, you should either kill it, or try to keep it, and if it dies in your tank, thats better than putting it back in the water where it can potentially kill many more fish, or mess up an ecosystem ...
That is very true.
But do some looking in your own personal experience.
Maybe you will find that this guy is easy to keep.
They are very cool, and if a molly can lose and regain his sanity, anything can happen.
But do some looking in your own personal experience.
Maybe you will find that this guy is easy to keep.
They are very cool, and if a molly can lose and regain his sanity, anything can happen.
new2natives;2187631; said:
I was wondering the same thing since he said that he personally caught the fish in the wild, and has it his tank. The fish was not bred in captivity, and was never in an lfs.
But I can understand the un-natural/non-naive disease from a personal tank...
blurock;2189355; said:
i was going on the assumption that the tank has had a LFS fish in it at some point
i don't know what people would say about it if the tank was brand new, all the filters and media were all new ... i suppose if it never came in contact with a LFS fish EVER ....
but thats probably not likely. and then you would run the risk that a fish that was used to being in a tank and food being given to it. then could it hunt in the wild?
i dont know, but the easy answer is simply, don't ever release a fish thats been in a tank
BillyReuben;2186381; said:
I don't know about rationale, but performing such an act is ILLEGAL in the state of Louisiana. Once removed, it may only be returned with state authorization.
At 3", you should find that it will voraciously consume baby livebearers. Good luck, these guys are fascinating little creatures!
screw the calcium chloride, use the water from the bayou since that is going to be the most natural for it and collect more fish from that site or keep just the pipefish in the tank.
Nice find.
Being you say your a ecology - PhD student, don't they teach this fundamental law at Tulane University? If not you want to bring it up to your Professor.
Not only can they catch and transmit things back to the wilderness, but they loose some of their immunity to what normally wouldn't bother them in the wild.
Meanwhile back at the ranch... watch the eyes they're really cool.
Dr Joe
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Being you say your a ecology - PhD student, don't they teach this fundamental law at Tulane University? If not you want to bring it up to your Professor.
Not only can they catch and transmit things back to the wilderness, but they loose some of their immunity to what normally wouldn't bother them in the wild.
Meanwhile back at the ranch... watch the eyes they're really cool.
Dr Joe
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