It's the only way it can work and we as enthusiasts need to blab as soon as any thing untoward pops up.
Hi Mystery,before they were protected in about 74 or 1975 they were just collected and sold,i remember cabramatta pet shop in sydney with alpine blotcheys crowded into wire bird cages,carpets and diamond kept in atrocious conditions.They used to sell diamonds and carpets etc at petersham petshop and the same bloke sold them at a stall in Paddys markets,common blueys 1$ blotchys 2$ capets10$ diamonds 20$ and sometimes theyd charge buy the foot for the really big ones.The bloke that sold them at paddys and petersham was actually a great bushman and he caught many of the diamonds down south coast NSW,i knew a few old bushys that knew him.Reptiles were also often sold in the free adds section of the sunday telegraph,used to be fun seeing what was going on sundays.Zulu - have they ever been allowed to sell reps in NSW Pet Shops? I didn't even know they weren't allowed to.
It's the only way it can work and we as enthusiasts need to blab as soon as any thing untoward pops up.And Hix thers no breders with sub standard conditions about ? 1 bad pet shop and its curtains for all ?
Yeh Hix,thats how it goes,if it looks like a rat it an eats cheese its a rat,some big dealers do exactly what your saying,very few crosses go onto the books as crosses.One other thing some of you might want to consider -
It's often said in APS "I have no problem with you having a Diamond X Coastal, as long as you tell people that's what it is when you sell it".
If you sold one to a petshop, and told them what it was, and it looked like a Diamond, what do you think the Petshop will sell it as (espec. when purebred Diamonds usually command a higher price than crosses).
Just something to think about.
Hix
dragons said:i was talking to this fella recently and when i explained the current process involved in buying reps his response was "it's a lot of work much easier to just go bush and grab your self a snake "
last year the pet shop that i work at had 3 spot checks in the year
I don't think a lot of pet shops in NSW should be able to sell any animals let alone reptiles.
Just look at the conditions they keep their other animals in -they're dodgy as.
Bad pet shops don't shut down, coz they're all about as bad as each other here. At one my local petshops there's a guy claiming to be a reptile specialist and he donsn't know squat about them or products -they're just in it to make a buck and will try to pull the wool over your eyes to do it. Trouble is most of their customers don't know any better so follow their advice.
I'm not bagging out pet shops in other states that do sell reptiles coz I haven't seen them but all the ones here are that I've seen are dodgy and shouldn't be allowed to.
dickynee-
"I was in a pet shop last week and over heard the guy telling a lady that she needs to put one teaspoon of "baking soda " in her aquarium to raise the ph levels ..not sure what that will do to your fish ....but i do know the advice is wrong."
some fish thrive and live much better in a higher ph! discuss fish for instance breed much better at a ph around 6 with some people keeping them as low as 5.6, not having a go just thought you may find it interesting.
1. you dont use "baking soda " its "bicarb soda "
2 .ph of 6 for discus is not high , its low..... ph 7.2 being neutral .
3. so disucs are not a very good example of fish that thrive in "high " ph .
just thought you may want to know
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