[Delphinus]

Wow, what a fabulous discussion.

Christy, no no-no. Excellent points.

Troy, wow. Awesome points. I agree: when the choice is available, let's remove the choice. If customers are going to whine about an extra $10, then it's time to get out that typical LFS superiority attitude, and give the speech that since they're captive bred, it's better for the hobby, it's better for the animals, and it's better for the buyers. If they still have a problem, well I guess you can't please everyone.

Brad's totally right, the average consumer is probably a total idiotic twat. It's going to be an uphill battle to convince them one-by-one. So if they're incapable of making the right decisions, then let's make them incapable of making the wrong decision.

Steve, I know you say you'd just buy the cheaper option, but I look at your setup, and I look at your toys er tools and camera and stuff, and I look at your photographs .... and I know there's no way you're not convinced that superior products are more important than just good deals every time.

The problem with captive raised is it requires an investment, and so to make the effort worthwhile, there has to be return on that investment. So, maybe the answer is in part to artificially inflate the price of wild-caught. Obviously that would have to be done at the govenmental level by introducing levies or taxes or duties, because otherwise it's just going into somebody's pocket, and that's no answer either (the idea is to discourage the excessive import of wild-caught).

Just my $0.02. I know that I tend to take a naive view on things, but it really does seem unsustainable as it is right now, doesn't it. We'll need to do something, eventually.