maybe not a good idea...

[sihaya]

Umm... is it just me or should we maybe not be putting our tank animals back into the wild? And maybe especially not one which appears to not be doing well...

http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic73084-9-1.aspx

I mean, even if you know exactly where your fish and corals come from, you're not meant to just go put them back right? Maybe I'm wrong?

 

[DonW]

I dont know if its questionable or not. We do it with bears and other wild animals. I guess if the fish doesnt make it he will be lunch for another. The corals I think the same would apply.

Don

 

[sihaya]

Hmmm... I guess. But knowing just how little it takes to cause an environmental crisis with a foreign pathogen, I'd think you wouldn't want to risk it.

Have you seen this?
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS06/608060305

 

[sihaya]

Oh wait, if this guy gets EVERYTHING from the same place (water, rock, food, sand... EVERYTHING), then I would think it's ok. But that would seen far and apart from what we all do...

 

[DonW]

Honestly if I could walk out my back door and get what ever I wanted I may have a ever revolving reef also.

Don

 

[sihaya]

lol... yeah, but what fun is there in that?!

 

[Krish]

I don't see a problem in my case where I get alot of the fish from the wild and then return them after they've out grown the tank a bit or become troublesome. I wouldn't put back a fish that has been in the tank with fish from another country for the simple fact of transferring something potentially bad into our waters but going from a wild caught fish kept with wild caught fish only and putting them back into the wild, I personally see no problem. Just my take on it

 

[sihaya]

Well, I can see that... I just hope people reading that thread understand that he gets EVERYTHING from his back yard (if that's the case) and that people don't think it's ok for land-locked hobbyists.

 

[Herefishyfishy]

I doubt my Hippo tang would make it in the Puget Sound

 

[acrodesiac]

Honestly if I could walk out my back door and get what ever I wanted I may have a ever revolving reef also.

Don

COLD WATER BABY! :lol:

 

[burning2nd]

IMO i wouldnt

its like releaseing a tiger back in to the wild... after its bin fed in a cage....

the hunting the survival its all less then what it would be in the wild.... not that death isnt natural, but its like

raceing a vet against civic.... no matter what your gonna loss.... (i know more about that then i let on i could build a civic that would woop a vet... but where not going there..)


runing from your anonome to get a peace of food is not the same as being on a reef fighting for your life....
i say no

 

[DonW]

COLD WATER BABY! :lol:

Yup I can just keep a salmon, some cod and of course a dog fish or two. I can throw in some old tires, beer bottles and other assorted car parts. We'll call it the puget sound biotope.

Don

 

[sihaya]

IMO i wouldnt

Well, personally, I wouldn't either... but I'm more paranoid about introduction of foreign organisms. Unless I could make sure that *nothing* (not even food or water or anything) from any other reef ever came near my tank, I wouldn't ever put anything back. But like I said, I tend to be really paranoid about this issue.

But again, if this guy's tank is essentially just a big bucket it took home from the beach, then it probably doesn't matter (so long as everyone else knows that's what he's doing).