The TRUST said:I have met guppy in person and let me tell u......this guy can kill an elk with a toothpick and use some of it's body parts to make more weapons.
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"nope never its illegal in the UK to feed an animal with a spine to another animal with a spine except for human consumption obviously. plus feeders can carry illness to your tank. my point is more the fact that the guy wants to kill his convicts because they ate fry yet he dont want fry. seems odd to me in a dalmer kind of way y'know"danny boy said:and thanks for the welcome
Um, what are you supposed to feed a pet Boa constrictor? A carrot?
I'm willing to let it lie if Danny Boy ain't well he should go and moan on another site !!!
I owe MFK my full allegence as it's been a great site and a very knowlegeble site which i have learned an awful lot from, I like the people who come on here i also like the fact that we as monster fish keepers are always looking to find better way's to fatten up our fish by naturally feeding our Predatory fish with feeder fish which might i say they eat them in the wild !!!.
Nuff said !!! Hail MFK !!!
Oh and Josh mate i ain't ever heard that it's illeagal to kill anything with a spine in the UK either !!!
I owe MFK my full allegence as it's been a great site and a very knowlegeble site which i have learned an awful lot from, I like the people who come on here i also like the fact that we as monster fish keepers are always looking to find better way's to fatten up our fish by naturally feeding our Predatory fish with feeder fish which might i say they eat them in the wild !!!.
Nuff said !!! Hail MFK !!!
Oh and Josh mate i ain't ever heard that it's illeagal to kill anything with a spine in the UK either !!!
Hi Dan, as owner and proud keeper of several hugely predatory fish I can see both sides of the coin and although have fed my rays feeders, my personal choice is not to due to the potential for bringing pathogens in with the feeders.
Danny is correct, if a fish shop is found selling fish as feeders it can be in serious trouble, and the way you feed a boa constrictor is by feeding it defrosted frozen rats, you can buy those from most herp dealers the same as you can buy whitebait/lancefish frozen to feed your fish.
In the States I believe you can buy feeders from LFS, we dont have that luxury over here I am afraid.
This is always a contentious issue and who is to say what is right?? There are pro's and cons from both sides, I would never argue against live feeding because in all honesty there is nothing more natural than a piscivore eating a fish but I think there is something wrong when it is made a 'spectacle' and it is done for 'entertainment' rather than sustenance.
Steve
Danny is correct, if a fish shop is found selling fish as feeders it can be in serious trouble, and the way you feed a boa constrictor is by feeding it defrosted frozen rats, you can buy those from most herp dealers the same as you can buy whitebait/lancefish frozen to feed your fish.
In the States I believe you can buy feeders from LFS, we dont have that luxury over here I am afraid.
This is always a contentious issue and who is to say what is right?? There are pro's and cons from both sides, I would never argue against live feeding because in all honesty there is nothing more natural than a piscivore eating a fish but I think there is something wrong when it is made a 'spectacle' and it is done for 'entertainment' rather than sustenance.
Steve
DanDanUK said:
dude!! you REALLY must learn to read more thoroughly its not illegal to kill anything with a spine but the law in the UK is that you cannot feed a vertebrate to another vertebrate, it all stems from the mad cow and foot and mouth epidemic, it was national news when passed so i assume you dont follow national news? its not like im making this up im trying to tell you something. you can guess at me being a liar or whatever you like to make me look bad but the case in point still remains the same.
if you can bring a good argument to the table then do so and we can debate
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other wise why waste forum/my time with this pettiness? it seems like you just want to argue about anything maybe to gain the support of your piers?
K.O.D said:
A good example of how hypocritical our civilization is. Mad cow disease came about because intensive farming perverted the food chain and beef ended up in cow's stomachs.
It was "developed" in the UK and plagues the world. It is ironic that the same country prohibits feeding fish to fish. Fish are piscivorous after all. Cows aren't cowrnivorous.
yeah i think really its a loose law in many areas. if you feed a guppy to an oscar nothings going to happen to you over here but its in place to keep 'food for human consumption' in check. it does none the less cover the whole spectrum and isnt specific to any species. i think its allowed where reptiles are concerned but they prey has to be dead first. im no lawyer so cant be 100% on it all but its basic outlines. while i have pointed out that its illegal i dont actually share the same view.
