Feeding Live

[BlueAbyss]

*Sigh* Well, first off, let me say that I don't like clownfish... I would prefer to see Nemo on the short end of a long spear. A mantis spear is perfect...

Now that I have that out of the way, let's look at the meat and potatoes of this. Either way, Nemo was removed from the ocean and will NOT be going back in. Simply put. He will either live a long, healthy life, or a short unhealthy one in a poorly taken care of tank, or will get eaten by something (or go carpet surfing, or get sucked into an intake...). I don't see any problem with this, at least he isn't a food fish that we harvest thousands of his kind in a giant net at once. If Nemo was tasty, we'd be eating him too... I can't see why feeding him to someone else should be a problem.

Ethical or unethical... who cares? The fact that he's been removed from the ocean pretty much seals his fate anyhow, right? I don't think it matters whether he lives 5 years in a 1000 gallon tank, 1 year in a 10 gallon tank, or 2 minutes in a mantis tank... the fact is he will die in that tank, one way or another. Or on the carpet next to the tank, if it's open top