Responsibilities associated with keeping and breeding cephs

[Nancy]

([Edit by tonmo]: I moved this from a thread over in Marketplace. What ensues is a discussion / debate related to responsible cephkeeping and breeding)

If you can't sell all of them, will you be able to put them back in the ocean, in a place where bimacs are found?

Nancy

 

[Fishfreak218]

If you can't sell all of them, will you be able to put them back in the ocean, in a place where bimacs are found?

Nancy

thats not a good idea!!
hvant you ever heard NOT to put things BACK into the ocean!!! They have prob. come across alot of other parasites and other things that arent native to where he would be letting them go!
not a good idea IMO

 

[Brock Fluharty]

What do you think captive breeding programs do? I don't think parasites are too big of an issue with cephalopods...

 

[tonmo]

FF218, I'm not a ceph-keeping expert but I know the Seattle Aquarium has done this with their cephs in the past.

 

[cuttlegirl]

Cephalopods do harbor parasitic animals...

 

[Brock Fluharty]

Right. I didn't say they didn't. Virtually all life forms harbor parasitic animals, but not all are harmful, or deadly. He could have used NSW, then the same parasites would be on the wild animals as well.

 

[cthulhu77]

Captive bred animals are not allowed to be released into the wild. Period.

The only times that they have been have met with mixed results, and usually a failure. The problem is, why are these octopus being produced if there is no where for them to go?

 

[Zeus Zoso]

He thought he would be lucky to have 1 alive after a month.

 

[Zeus Zoso]

BTW PM me if you want one, because I am not going to try and keep track of these threads.
Alex

 

[cthulhu77]

This reminds me of the "burmese python" problem....people just bred them willy-nilly, and when they couldn't sell them, released them.
Now we have breeding populations of them in the wild. Nice job.