steve allow me to explain my position. i do not think this applies as much to boxfish as it does to some other species such as cleaner wrasses or moorish idols. however i think that by purchasing these species, the shops are encouraged to bring in more. if they are only purchased by experts, less will be bought, therefore less will be harvested needlessly. naturally it's easiest to learn through experience, but some might question the ethics of killing ten cleaner wrasses in a year trying to keep one alive in a tank.
hope that makes sense. in this case, my point was more an encouragement to "read before you buy".
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-Quinn
Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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