Hypancistrus
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Went to the All MD Reptile Show @ Havre de Grace today. There were a friggin TON of burms there... albinos were going for $100 newly hatched. Normals were running around $50. But one vendor had a "skinny special" on normal burms that were thin-- I would guess they were not good feeders. They were selling them for $10 a piece.
So for half a $20 bill, a teenager can walk into that show and buy an animal that, if it survives, can reach 15' and weigh more than said teenager. It could reach 10', a dangerous length, in one years time.
Is this really the way we want to treat our hobby? Should we, in this political climate, be offering dangerous animals for sale to the public, at random, in so cavalier a fashion?
So for half a $20 bill, a teenager can walk into that show and buy an animal that, if it survives, can reach 15' and weigh more than said teenager. It could reach 10', a dangerous length, in one years time.
Is this really the way we want to treat our hobby? Should we, in this political climate, be offering dangerous animals for sale to the public, at random, in so cavalier a fashion?
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