What would you do if rays became illegal where you live

[piranhaman00]

I'm not a ray guy but I guess I would surrender them or talk to someone that's in charge of the subject.

I know that right when the snakehead ban came my lfs just got a large shipment of little ones in. He had to kill them all.


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[MN_Rebel]

I wouldnt doubt Oddball and I am sure large snake heads can live longer then 10 years

I would questioning Oddball sometimes and he got wrong few times in the past but that's just me. I'm sure the snakeheads do live longer than 10 years but I doubt that an average fishkeeper will pull it off. Rocky the snakehead was an expectation.

 

[castro1212]

I don't have any rays....yet. But if I did have them when the ban came up I would either see if I could work with f&w to see if I could get a permit to keep them since I already had them


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[T1KARMANN]

If they was banned in the UK I would keep them anyway and change my tag location to planet earth in my head or in my bedroom or something silly like that

Nothing much tropical is banned in the UK as they can't be set free in our local waters


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[shookONES]

Keep em!

 

[Zoodiver]

and to your second point... there are homes to be found for the rarer stuff but what about all the Pacu and RTC? or those poor fish in england from the monster tank that had to be shut down do to expense?

It would depend on what the fish was and what the new law said. In the US, they always has a plan to deal with the animals in cases like this. As someone who has worked with enforcement of animal law/regulations in the past, I would follow the guidelines set in place to deal with the change in legislation.
One thing a lot of people don't realize is that the agents are also animal people. It's not like these guys are a bunch of animal haters trying to make laws to keep people from having animals. They are doing what is best for the general public and animals alike. They see influencing factors that can often be missed from a hobbiest end of things when writing the laws.

 

[krichardson]

Must not be true for all of them as I hear a lot of remarks to the effect of the agents not knowing one type of fish from another.

 

[T1KARMANN]

How would this be possible anyway

So many captive breeders of rays now if they kept producing pups what would they do castrate the males

With fish like Asian aros I understand that if they was imported before the ban came into effect then it was ok to still keep pre ban fish
Asian aro are a different thing as they haven't been bred outside of Asian so no fry has ever come from the pre ban fish

With rays it's a different as they breed so often you would get a small gene pool but they could goon breeding and producing pups for years


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[UnstoppableJayD]

How would this be possible anyway

So many captive breeders of rays now if they kept producing pups what would they do castrate the males

With fish like Asian aros I understand that if they was imported before the ban came into effect then it was ok to still keep pre ban fish
Asian aro are a different thing as they haven't been bred outside of Asian so no fry has ever come from the pre ban fish

With rays it's a different as they breed so often you would get a small gene pool but they could goon breeding and producing pups for years


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Great question TK and exactly where I thought this would go... some of the small channa are being bred in the us (illegally) but they still can not be owned.

 

[slippery slimecoat]

A concern of mine (if it this type of ban were even possible) would be local people. I don't have a tank big enough for stingrays or anything as distinctive as rays, and a ton of people know about my tank. I can't help to believe that number would increase with distinctive fish and a tank larger than my 120. It only takes one person talking to the wrong people to have law enforcement knocking on the door.

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