| Unfortunately, the practice gets more and more widespread every year. The collectors don't care that they're killing the reef, only that they get paid for what they catch today. The hobby/industry needs to implement some type of cyanide test, and implement total bans on fish caught with cyanide or any other drug as well. Gonna put a lot of fish in short supply, but at least the ones we get will live...
I remember reading that there is a mortality rate of over 80% of the fish dying between capture and getting to our tanks. That's one of the reasons I get so darned upset about the needless fish deaths in our/my tanks. Sometime $hit Happens, and is mostly out of our control, but mixing non-compatible fish, not quarantining, and not acclimating are just examples of pure negligence.
As I posted in another thread, if we don't start being more responsible, we will lose a big piece of our hobby.
Off the stinkin soapbox Boomer!! |