STINGRAYS FROM BRAZIL - UPDATES
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I have to agree with David here.
We need to get some rays out of Brazil as quickly as possible. They are potentially in more danger in the wild than they are in some 13 year olds 75 gallon tank (stretching it a bit here obviously).
More and more hobbyists are starting to breed their animals and that will be the key to their long term survival.
Captive breeding cannot keep up with the current demand but the percentage is growing.
We will get there. It is the only long term option.
Colin
We need to get some rays out of Brazil as quickly as possible. They are potentially in more danger in the wild than they are in some 13 year olds 75 gallon tank (stretching it a bit here obviously).
More and more hobbyists are starting to breed their animals and that will be the key to their long term survival.
Captive breeding cannot keep up with the current demand but the percentage is growing.
We will get there. It is the only long term option.
Colin
...........damm it!
damm the brazil government for killing so much of the ray environment and allow stupid rules to kill rays easily esp the part about those bloody damm japanese fishing ships. those should be sunk! yet at the same time ban the export of ray...
maybe this will make farms wake up and start breeding ray instead of over breeding and over pricing asian arowana. with so many farms focusing on arowana and how fast arowana can reproduce (10 - 60 fries, twice a year.) in the right environment compared to rays.
damm the brazil government for killing so much of the ray environment and allow stupid rules to kill rays easily esp the part about those bloody damm japanese fishing ships. those should be sunk! yet at the same time ban the export of ray...
maybe this will make farms wake up and start breeding ray instead of over breeding and over pricing asian arowana. with so many farms focusing on arowana and how fast arowana can reproduce (10 - 60 fries, twice a year.) in the right environment compared to rays.
True. I keep encouraging DW to go down and start breeding so we can buy from him. IBAMA wont give us the punch line so we are laying it wait. PS Weise didn't write that. He copy pasted it from the other USA OFI rep.
this is good
most of you will end up killing them anyways
and then no more rays forever.
i kinda have to agree with you del.
Breeding rays is a good step in the right direction. All of you had good points of opinion regarding this matter. Thanks Neo for the thread.
to tell the truth i think its a good idear they stop shipping rays from Brazil look at the state they arive after shipping in
if the people who are breeding and the people trying to bred start working together i think it may be posable to surply enought captive bred rays and at least the breeders would know who they are selling to and make sure they can take care of them
out of all the rays that are imported how many of them ever grow to adult size most are sold to people who have bitern off more than they can chew
i think its good they are banned from export now i have captive bred rays i would never buy another wild caught unless it was to incress the gene pool
basically what im saying is in a year or 2 their should be enough captive bred rays to go around for the people who can take care of them properly
if the people who are breeding and the people trying to bred start working together i think it may be posable to surply enought captive bred rays and at least the breeders would know who they are selling to and make sure they can take care of them
out of all the rays that are imported how many of them ever grow to adult size most are sold to people who have bitern off more than they can chew
i think its good they are banned from export now i have captive bred rays i would never buy another wild caught unless it was to incress the gene pool
basically what im saying is in a year or 2 their should be enough captive bred rays to go around for the people who can take care of them properly
