<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7510316#post7510316 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by petpoor
Nice picture, sometime in late August I will be going back to the Tampa Aquarium. Cool place and they have some new exhibit now don't they ??? showing different styles of home aquariums or something, got an email from them but accidentally deleted it
Tom
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7509061#post7509061 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by imbuggin
sure is a nice specimen. It should be considering they sell for $25,000- $30,000.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7525448#post7525448 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pco1988
Acually not trying to be a pain in the butt, but they sell for $4,000 each.
Philip
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7544643#post7544643 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kyliegirl
not to be a tighy about this but technically leafy sea dragons are illegal to capture and export in australia. They are classed as an endangered species, and are strictly protected, their natural environment is being destroyed and more and more are dissapearing.
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/default.asp?hOri=1&inhab=415
it is very dissapointing to hear a "rich" person grabbing such a fragile and endangered creature which couldve possible been smuggled from australia, only encouraging the downfall of one of the worlds most fascinating creatures.
As beatiful as they are, sadly, noone has ever been able to breed them in captivity, therefore they dont belong in captivity.
(The leafy sea dragon is an endangered species, in 1991 WA Fisheries in Western Australia declared it a 'totally protected species', and it became the official conservation symbol of southern Australian waters)
http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/pub/fishcards/seadragon.php?0101
http://www.earlham.edu/~warreem/seadragons.htm