Striking wild the iron is hot!

[Reefrookie220]

Since the stoppage of collection in Hawaii, I've noticed numerous vendors (no names), including ones in this site, suddenly offering "completely aquacultured Hawaiian fish"

No doubt they are (probably) aquacultured, as the colors are off...

They are sold as pairs, or at a nicely inflated price always followed with "get them now cause we can't collect anymore and who knows blah blah blah"

What are your thoughts? How thorough is the average hobbyists understanding of what's actually happening in Hawaii? Do we have months of this ahead of us?

It's a matter of opinion of course, and to each their own, but me personally - I don't care if his holiness the pope captive bred yellow tangs, I'm not paying the gut wrenching price for a HLLE ridden fish. It's more cruel to breed them deformed than to catch them in a sustainable manner. Sorry for the rant! That is all.

 

[Katrina71]

Price gouging? Unethical business practices? Gasp. Say it isn't so!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Supply and demand. It's fresh on everyone minds. People will be more likely to make that impulse buy now that it'll be harder to get these fish. Heck I've been wanting another Hawaiian golden dwarf moray every since I lost mine in emergency QT to carpet surfing. Never had a problem in the DT since he had caves and rocks and it was like home. Put him in QT with PVC "caves" and he bailed the second night. Didn't think to put a cover over the 10g, I'd still have him today. Am I going to impulse buy the first one I see? No, I'm going to wait until I get my next build complete. I have plans for an intricate under-sand tunnel system designed for a GDM with multiple entrances and even some different heights... So I'm going to wait this out, see what happens and I might just have to save up quite a few pretty pennies for an eel, but it'll be worth it once I have the build done.