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Their presence on CITES lists automatically strikes them out. Here in SA we need permits to import them but other than that legal, so long as they are farm bred, microchipped fish.
I get that Asian aros are cool fish and look great but I don't understand the obsession about them being banned. How many people could honestly house them properly?
At the moment I imagine the government have bigger concerns anyway, still good luck to all who have signed any petition or lobbied for change.
In the US you have such a huge variety of fish to keep you shouldn't stress about the few you can't. Come live in Australia and then you will really have something to complain about.
At the moment I imagine the government have bigger concerns anyway, still good luck to all who have signed any petition or lobbied for change.
In the US you have such a huge variety of fish to keep you shouldn't stress about the few you can't. Come live in Australia and then you will really have something to complain about.
There are quite a few interesting fish and creatures in Australia.I sure would love to be able to get my hands on one of your giant crayfish....Murray Cray?
Oddball
once talked about getting a trio from Australia, if you want to you could potentially talk to him about it though it likely won’t turn up any useful results.I'm not sure what if anything he has currently but Oddball used to have some pretty interesting stuff back when he was active here.I imagine he is busy with other things now. Have you checked out some of his old photo threads?
For your fishtank or for dinner? They are good for both.
We call the ones from the Murray river yabbies, that river also has huge cod and catfish too. In the early 1900s people were catching 6 foot long cod but not anymore. The best big saltwater crays come from Tasmania, It's cold there and has really fresh clean water. Funnily enough Australian seafood is pretty cheap now as we cant export it to china so for once we can afford to eat our own produce.
We used to Catch yabbies a lot in the younger years then boil them up for a nice feast, they have changed the rules on the traps you can use due to overfishing so they are a bit harder to catch now.
It's human nature to want what you can't have, my wife actually brought me a 3 foot tank on Saturday and I'd love some Honduran red points or nonolutus but you can't get them here and they are on our illegal import list so that's probably why I poked my grumpy nose in here!
My tank,I would only be interested in eating them if they were plentiful and easily acquired here....besides I'm almost exclusively a king crab man lol.I have heard the term yabbie before but wasn't aware of the Tasmanian species.Heck,I wasn't even aware that it was cold there.
I did have a Murray cod before.....one of my big dats ate it.
Yes I have, he truly is something else, I’d dare say he was the 1% of the 1% or at least he was for the average joe fish keeper.
He's had stuff that I've never even heard of being kept before or since lol.
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