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Nice vids. One word of warning, it is a bad idea to release fish into the wild. If it is a fish that is not native to the area it may have no natural predators and could become a problem invasive species. For instance this has happened with Volitan Lionfish. There is a breeding population of this Pacific Ocean fish in the Atlantic Ocean as far north as North Carolina.
Even if it is a fish native to where you live if it has been in an aquarium with non-native fish, rocks, corals, inverts, etc you could also introduce a parasite or bacteria from another part of the world into your ocean and wipe out populations of native fish that would have no defense against it. If you remember your history this happened to Native Americans in both North & South America. When European explorers arrived they introduced diseases that the Native Americans had no immunity to. Entire communities were wiped out by a disease that may have not killed the Europeans.
the panter grouper is in the miami seaquarium to me that is the ocean 10000000000g+++++++++ tank that is a ocean to me
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Originally Posted by CarmieJo
Hey Cubano,
Nice vids. One word of warning, it is a bad idea to release fish into the wild. If it is a fish that is not native to the area it may have no natural predators and could become a problem invasive species. For instance this has happened with Volitan Lionfish. There is a breeding population of this Pacific Ocean fish in the Atlantic Ocean as far north as North Carolina.
Even if it is a fish native to where you live if it has been in an aquarium with non-native fish, rocks, corals, inverts, etc you could also introduce a parasite or bacteria from another part of the world into your ocean and wipe out populations of native fish that would have no defense against it. If you remember your history this happened to Native Americans in both North & South America. When European explorers arrived they introduced diseases that the Native Americans had no immunity to. Entire communities were wiped out by a disease that may have not killed the Europeans.
Back in the 80's my friend built a 5' tall x 8' x 4' tank in his basement. He was upgrading his 55 gallon tank that had among others a nurse shark, panther grouper and volitan lion in it. Within a very short time of moving into the new tank those were the only 3 fish he had because they had eaten everything else.
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