Feeding Live

[naesco]

The original poster's intent was a poll about the ethics of feeding a predator live marine fish.
The feeding of a live starfish to a harlequin shrimp and a clownfish to a mantis were set at as examples.

I love watching a starfish fold itself around live rock as it searches for food. I love watching it's tiny suckers move the starfish up the glass in my aquarium.
I don't understand a hobbyist getting their rocks off watching a harlequin shrimp tearing it apart live.

I love watching a clownfish doing their waddle like swim, watching you with their cute bright eyes. I love watching it snuggle itself in it's anemone.
I idea of watching this cute little fish attacked by a mantis makes me wonder why someone would see joy in this for any reason.

My vote is that this is unethical.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

How are you making this connection fishy? Rooster/ Dog/ Mongoose fighting are done in a very illegal setting focused on betting and the transfer of money. Me feeding my Trigger fish a live damsel is like Rooster fighting in which sense?

Well, Since when is it natural to put a fish in a glass box with out a predator? It isn't natural to put a fish in a box period, yet we still have this massive fresh/ salt water aquarium hobby going on around the world.

My mind works in strange ways sometimes....OK peeps were saying that that in the ocean its eat or be eaten the predator/prey thing is a beautiful thing....I agree with this.....I love watching National Geographic and seeing a cheetah, chase down and kill a gazelle on the open Serengetti(sp?)....that to me is awesome.....but put that gazelle in a corral and.....while these relationships exist in the wild (like mongoose/ cobra fights and **** fights) .....the playing field is even, so to speak....both predator and prey have every opportunity to both succeed and fail.....this is not so when people put two roosters in a ring to fight it out....or a mongoose in a glass box with a cobra....or a clownfish in an aquarium with a mantis....


I agree with you most of us are hypocrites....

[fishytime]