Finding nemo fish tank setup7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() The aquarium trade has received this attention from the outside because it is won't to support its own salvation from the inside. mega foundations you spoke of bankroll this kind of stuff all the time.many years now. The 20 years of fruitless net training was administered by non aquarium people for non aquarium purposes.ie. What would you do? Would you just sell out like almost everyone else? Or would you stay honest, stay sincere and. ITS VERY UNFAIR FOR HONEST DEALERS to compete against the cyanide trade and twice as unfair if that trade recieves absolution from some "environmental NGO".ĭON'T JUST JUDGE THE TRUE BELIEVERS ON THE SUPERFICIAL STUFF. This is where much of the anger comes from that newbies and innocents just walk in and say, "Hey guys, can't we all just get along?" Mary, Jenn, Tim, Judy.will anyone ever understand why it is so important to have blue tangs caught with nets? So that we can be complete and compete on a more level playing field. If its what you do for a living, whats the alternative? Selling out? What if you are the rare few who find that offensive and unacceptable? What if you insist on a policy of not using your purchasing power to help accelerate coral destruction? What if you want to do the right thing?Īnd what if there is still no net training and netting supply moving forward to allow you to do the right thing? After 20 years of net trainings from the NGOs we've been hearing of, this amounts to practically nothing and not enough to stock one single L.A. The final consciencious 1% of marinelife dealers refuse to carry blue tangs unless they can get the few netcaught ones available. The more informed hobbyists and marinelife dealers often pretend to care.mix it with a dose of denial and then execute the sale. Numb and oblivious to this, the general public grabs for the color and prettiness like a baby does for a rattle. Attracting the squirt bottle to their hiding places deep in the interstices of the coral, their capture generally ensures a serious dose of poison. The Solomons, Tonga and Vanuatu provide token amounts comparitively.īlue tangs are indicator species and reflect the % of coverage of old, live pocillipora and acropora stands. Huge numbers come from Indonesia and Philippines. The retail trade would never support that and hobbyist even less. No normal importer would ever pay the Aussie price. Nemo wouldn't bet collected and shipped from Australia in real Look it up on the map and see if you can get any futher away from Manila than that. The big numbers today come from principally Davao and General Santos in Mindinao. Cyanide collecting has decimated critical blue tang coral habitat near traditional collecting areas so they keep coming from futher and futher away. The problem is, those reefs are futher and futher away as the nearer ones get cashed in. They're in season now and on living coral cover reefs they are popping up everywhere. I hope the marketplace doesn't push them any harder then it already is doing. ![]() Blue tangs already account for so much coral destruction in their collection. ![]()
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