mandarin_goby
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Is that really all you have? I guess we should all keep such things in mind when choosing a name/avatar. How silly.
well, if i cared enough to argue any more, i would, but it's pointless.
Go see the pretty orcas in their tiny confines. Enjoy!
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and avatar. There is no reason to glamorize the keeping of mandrins. They are better left in the ocean and no one should have one. Even the captive breed ones. Between culling, not eating and natural deaths lots of mandarins just so you can have a colorful fish in your tank. That doesn't sounds like responsible fish keeping.
Mandarins do perfectly fine in captivity with the proper care and attention, just like any other fish.
And while people are impulsive and get them without knowing what they are getting themselves into, it is hardly a problem that is exclusive to the mandarins and can in fact be applied to pretty much all the animals people keep.
Not all fish are suitable for everyone, but that does not mean nobody should be allowed to have them at all.
- Proud owner of a fat and plump female mandarin.
Cheetahs dont need to run 70 in a cage...
so what im going to do is keep a dog in a closet.
Itll be well fed and ill cram a female in there so itll breed
Itll live longer than wild dogs and breed succesfully so obviously its a good thing to do
But then the same ppl supporting an orca in a pool will take my dog
Im sure my fish would rather be in the ocean
Im not against zoos or seaworld im against the thinking that animals are happier or better off in there
Zoodiver, you said above that 100% of orcas die if released.
How do you know?
How many have been released? A few?
We would need an enormous sample size. Lets release 100k and i bet that number is false
Cheetahs dont need to run 70 in a cage...
so what im going to do is keep a dog in a closet.
Itll be well fed and ill cram a female in there so itll breed
Itll live longer than wild dogs and breed succesfully so obviously its a good thing to do
But then the same ppl supporting an orca in a pool will take my dog
Im sure my fish would rather be in the ocean
Im not against zoos or seaworld im against the thinking that animals are happier or better off in there. When you go to these places you are,seeing a small scale imitation. Some of us cant afford to go to africa but when i see that
Heetah laying there bored i know hes not happy. The snow leopards at my zoo have a cage the size of my room. So lets be,realistic here. These animals have a shitty life only there for entertainment and thats,reality.
Were talking about millions of years of evolution to adapt to a certain environment and just because a handful of orcas did better is besides the point.
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Zoodiver, you said above that 100% of orcas die if released.
How do you know?
How many have been released? A few?
We would need an enormous sample size. Lets release 100k and i bet that number is false