Man! You dont just get a pet and decide one day to "Lets throw him outside for a year and I'll remember about him a year later so I can feed him in the nice warm house so I can hope he will not be the first fish to drown in a 55gl tea pot"
It aint April Fools Homie, I say you get rid of him and let someone enjoy a fish like that, Legal or NOT!
If you ask me, I say you just get out of the HOBBY if you cant enjoy/AFFORD a fish of ANY SIZE!
Dude, when you post things like that and joke about it, people think your doing it for kicks, atleast I thought so. Maybe you should try to write a brief story about why in things like that. MOP.
My BAD if I came at you wrong
Hope you get your pond going soon so your Gator can get back to its Play Area!