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Troy, please do not judge an animals ability to survive in captivity or its appropriateness for captivity based on whether an LFS can keep it alive.
There are many factors that can greatly affect an animals chances of survival in captivity, the majority of these happen before the animal even lands in Canada or Los Angeles.
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Give me a break Tim, if the odd goniapora survives for a year or so in hobbyists' tank and an even fewer number survive longer than that we can probably assume they're better left in the ocean. I respect a retailer who know this. It's like pacific host anemones, once they're in a
good tank their survival rate is fairly good. However, if the majority of them die in the store's tanks
maybe they too should be left in the ocean. If the hobby can't survive doing what's right maybe there shouldn't be a hobby.
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At least they went to the effort to get one. I think they are the only store that did that and I am sure they must have paid more for those fish.
Did ya know they use cyanide to catch wild bangaii's. Why not just throw a barrier net over the urchin and bangaii's. One would think it's pretty simple.
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The point is that they did it a long time ago and it's more or less false advertising because it means nothing today. I'd rather know that with every shipment and pay a little more.
Honestly, I don't know why I'm arguing over invoices (I'm not actually). I've seen a few but I've never asked, nor would I and more or less for the reasons our hot-blooded retailers have expressed. I agree with whomever said, "if you can't trust them, don't shop there". I shop at retailers that I can trust. My points are more along the lines that we have to demand healthy, net caught fish. We should shop at stores that can tell us where they come from. Like I said earlier, if they're coming from a wholesaler and there's no way of telling where they came from; maybe we shouldn't be supporting that business. Someone else mentioned that the facilities are of equal importance and that is a great point too. What difference does it really make if "GIANT PET STORE" gets net caught fish if there staffs' husbandry skills are too poor to keep them healthy.
The truth is that the majority of hobbyists won't pay more for
anything and that will be the bottom line for determining where fish come from.