Evidence of cyanide poising

[hroberge]

30+ years ago loosing livestock to the effects of cyanide poisoning was a real problem. I am still concerned that this exists in today’s hobby. I appreciate your input very much.
Stay Salty !

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

I don’t have any evidence of it but my gut tells me it still exists. A lot of people on here say their fish died a few days after receiving it for no apparent reason.

 

[mdb_talon]

Have bought about 15 fish in the past few years and not lost any of them so certainly not in my case.

No idea if this is really still an issue, but if it were i imagine would be much less likely to impact end consumer directly and much more likely to impact transshippers and wholesalers

 

[Karen00]

I haven't lost any livestock yet so I'm hoping my fish never experienced this atrocious practice. From different threads I read members have said this is still being done. I would hope if there was a way to find out if vendors are getting fish from these sources that we could boycott buying from them. As long as the fish sell it will continue. If we stop buying from those vendors then they will switch to sources that don't do this and hopefully the sources doing this will stop if they want to stay in business.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

I haven't lost any livestock yet so I'm hoping my fish never experienced this atrocious practice. From different threads I read members have said this is still being done. I would hope if there was a way to find out if vendors are getting fish from these sources that we could boycott buying from them. As long as the fish sell it will continue. If we stop buying from those vendors then they will switch to sources that don't do this and hopefully the sources doing this will stop if they want to stay in business.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. But we can take this further. We don’t need to look for evidence of cyanide poisoning to change poor animal care practices by retailers. Look at all the talk that has been going on lately about live aquaria. Poor care is poor care no matter the process. Let’s start to make a change with our pockets towards anyone that doesn’t care for these animals, in any fashion.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Cyanide is still widely used to collect certain species, especially in Indonesia and Vietnam. The Philippines are trying to clean up their act, but cyanide use is still there.

This can and does cause latent mortality in freshly imported marine fish. However, it is sometimes used as a cause of death when it clearly wasn't: "My Hawaiian yellow tang died six months after I bought it, must have been caught with cyanide".

The typical cyanide caught fish are cryptic, deeper water species. Divers cannot spend the time needed to hand net these, so they use cyanide. Wide ranging fish, that don't hole up, like many tangs are caught in barrier nets.

Jay

 

[Karen00]

I agree with you wholeheartedly. But we can take this further. We don’t need to look for evidence of cyanide poisoning to change poor animal care practices by retailers. Look at all the talk that has been going on lately about live aquaria. Poor care is poor care no matter the process. Let’s start to make a change with our pockets towards anyone that doesn’t care for these animals, in any fashion.

Well said! I absolutely agree 110%. I'm sure there are more than a few places that just need to be shut down, there is no redemption for them. The others that used to be good but somehow lost their way have to clean up their act or they also need to be gone.