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calgator3574

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living in southern california (temecula) where can i buy a blue ring with out buying on the internet and having to worry about shipment
 
 
call all your lfs' and see if they can get you one. i haen't seen anyone sellin them on theinret and i know almost every online vendor.....
 
get yourself soe really thick rubber gloves if you do get a bluering, and never reach in the tank to do maintainence, use the rubber gloves to hold tongs and do maintainence with the tongs.
 
This is prime season for Hapalochlaena to come in from Indonesia. They are small, but I have seen over a dozen in the past couple of weeks coming into the Bay Area. Many LFS's won't handle them, but a few will. There definitely are liability issues when a shop sells you an animal that they know could kill you.

Roy
 
Even IF you can find one, and still want one after realizing that it can kill you, there is a good chance that it will not live that long after you get it. Don't bother with it, go with a bimac or a vulgaris.
 
"highly toxic-don't do it!!! ::O:"

Plus they're probably caught with cyanide. Bad for the octos. Bad for the reef.
 
And, you know all deadliness aside, most people don't have good luck with them. Yeah, they're pretty, but what good does that do you if you don't see it once until it dies after three weeks? I believe that, more than the danger, is the most compelling reason not to keep these guys.

I'm not going to say no one has had luck with this species (there's a really good video on one of the threads here of someone's blue ring) but given the volume of them that are imported its extremely rare.

If you're serious about octos, set up a 75 gallon specimen tank and get a bimac.

Dan
 
apparently they arent poisonous when young, nor as colourful - perhaps buy one as a juvenile? I cant see why you would want to unless you wear gold chains and have a pit bull too and wanna be an 'ard bastard, fishtank-style - lol I saw one while snorkelling off west austraila - V beautiful
 
To my knowledge, there are no studies correlating size of any blue-ring with lethality (except to show that even the eggs contain a small amount of TTX). It might seem to be common sense that the smaller the blue-ring, the smaller the amount TTX it could deliver in a bite, but when you are dealing with an animal that contains a toxin capable of killing a person several times over, do you really want to risk it. It probably doesn't matter if the animal can deliver sufficient TTX to kill one person or 10. That said, I would also point out that we don't know how much TTX most species of blue-ring contain or how much variation their is from individual to individual. Until those studies are done (which they are), it is probably best to steer clear of contact with any blue-ring, juvenile or adult.

Roy
 
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