A special fish(Just sharing)

I think the question of ethics should start with the tanks we all have compared to the ocean. If we agree that fish have much larger areas to swim in their natural habitat, your or my tank does not make a good enough home no matter the size. At this point, if the fish are fat/happy and not damaged / beat up / dying, we should be able to agree that the owner is successfully keeping them assuming these conditions continue.

While we are on the topic of ethics, consider how the fish are collected. In quite a few situations, these fish are poisoned to make collection faster/easier on the harvesters.
 
ReefPharmer said:
I think the question of ethics should start with the tanks we all have compared to the ocean. If we agree that fish have much larger areas to swim in their natural habitat, your or my tank does not make a good enough home no matter the size. At this point, if the fish are fat/happy and not damaged / beat up / dying, we should be able to agree that the owner is successfully keeping them assuming these conditions continue.

While we are on the topic of ethics, consider how the fish are collected. In quite a few situations, these fish are poisoned to make collection faster/easier on the harvesters.
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i definitely understand what you are saying.... i just find it comical that people on this forum get hammered for putting a single hippo tang in a 4 foot tank when this individual has a couple dozen + fish in what appears to be a 6-8 foot aquarium. just my 2 cents.

btw...take a look at his other youtube videos from the last 10-12 months...he seemingly changes the inhabitants of his aquarium quite often.
 
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Cultural differences can be great, but they can also be horrific. Cultural norms is not an excuse. To quote Terence McKenna, "culture is not your friend." Those fish in that video plainly need more room. I bet you could keep a kid fat and healthy looking in a closet.
 
It is ridiculous, collecting for the sake of collecting and status. No regards for the animals welfare here. Some of these are rare fish that most of us would set up a reasonable habitat to live in with hiding places and space to swim.
 
adtravels said:
It is ridiculous, collecting for the sake of collecting and status. No regards for the animals welfare here. Some of these are rare fish that most of us would set up a reasonable habitat to live in with hiding places and space to swim.
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exactly...it is disgraceful that someone would keep that many fish in such a small aquarium.
 
Update!
The owner send me some update pictures of this fish yesterday!
The owner tell me that the fish is come from the north east area of Tai Wan!
I am quite agree with humaguy that the face of this fish is very similar to a navarchus!
In fact, the owner think that it looks like a six-banded angelfish. Tai Wan area has many six-banded angelfish. He can find out the answer by sending a tissue of this fish to his friend whom is a marine scientist of Tai Wan University. But he think that guessing is more interesting.:rollface:
 

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I live in Taiwan right now and i would say that the tank in which this fish is kept in is quite a good one compared to the ones i see sometimes. Taiwanese people tend to buy fish nearly every two to three weeks to replace the ones that have died. They spend a lot of money on cool and rare fish especialy angelfish as you can ser in the video with a conspic and clarion angel but i do not know why they do not take great care of them.

Some tank as big as the one in the video sometimes have 5 or 6 more fish in them i really don't know why they do this. Maybe because the fish are very cheap compared to the US or Europe, for example a juvenile emperor angelfish is around 10 bucks and a clownfish is around 2 us dollars.
 
Wow I cant believe the price difference. Someone needs to start smuggling some of these fish to the US... lol Black market reef fishies!
 
breederforlife said:
I live in Taiwan right now and i would say that the tank in which this fish is kept in is quite a good one compared to the ones i see sometimes. Taiwanese people tend to buy fish nearly every two to three weeks to replace the ones that have died. They spend a lot of money on cool and rare fish especialy angelfish as you can ser in the video with a conspic and clarion angel but i do not know why they do not take great care of them.

Some tank as big as the one in the video sometimes have 5 or 6 more fish in them i really don't know why they do this. Maybe because the fish are very cheap compared to the US or Europe, for example a juvenile emperor angelfish is around 10 bucks and a clownfish is around 2 us dollars.
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not just Taiwan its everywhere imo. Yes I have been to Taiwan many times and have friends with reef fresh and salt tanks.
 
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