illegal reptiles?

[thesilverbeast]

lol horsy! what are they asking for?


if you wanted to swim with sharks come down to melbourne and do it at the aquarium. i have and it was pretty awesome unless you wanted something more natural in the open waters.

 

[Horsy]

Call me crazy but I'd love to go out in open waters and scuba dive in the middle of a feeding frenzy.

 

[thesilverbeast]

oh i would love that too! any scuba diving i would love.

 

[Hickson]

well the parahna bit...... thats funny there id pet store around the corner who sells parahnas for 100 each fish.........

Where exactly around the corner is this petshop?



Hix

 

[method]

Call me crazy but I'd love to go out in open waters and scuba dive in the middle of a feeding frenzy.

Let me tie this delicous bass to your leg

 

[jessop]

here is a google spider monkey link... make great companions i hear though i'd settle for a chimp or orangutan

 

[MrSpike]

Great White sharks can't be kept in captivity because the are constantly moving. There was a bit of research done a while back where they tracked a Great White for a few weeks. They started in Cape Town south Africa where they caught and tagged the big fishy, and it traveled across to WA, swam south until it got to the end of WA, then east through the Great Australian Bite past Victoria then headed north up past NSW and to far north QLD.

I don't think they will have a fish tank big enough to keep one in captivity? :lol:

 

[Miss B]

The only Great White ever kept in captivity for any significant period of time (137 days I believe) was a small 4ft female at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. She was kept in a one-million-gallon tank. There's virtually nowhere in the world capable of housing and displaying a fully-grown (up to 21ft) Great White like the type you see on the doco's. They also believe that electromagnetic fields in tanks constructed using concrete and steel can interfere with the Great White's very sensitive navigational skills. To top it all off, Great White sharks will not feed in captivity (and the one or two that have are the exception to the rule).

And MrSpike, you are right, they really know how to travel! Monterey Bay Aquarium tagged an adult Great White and were astonished to discover it eventually swam from California all the way to Hawaii :shock:

 

[moosenoose]

i am amzed that they can manage to get them through i wouldnt have thought they would survive being sent through mail and i didnt think they would be worth enough to bebought in by a boat but like everything if someone wants something there is always a way to get it i surpose.

It's amazing what some people will stick up their backsides! Probably explains why a lot of thorny devils aren't smuggled out this way

 

[Aslan]

JAWS got sick in captivity too...

 

[junglepython2]

There's a whale shark in captivity in Asia somewhere.

 

[Reaper]

theres a shop in carringbah sydney that sells sharks- port jacksons and small reef sharks i think. they have alot of predator tanks set up. its called Magestic aquariums

 

[monix]

I'm 100% serious. He gets my friend illegal fish and has offered me monkeys and stuff.

MONKEYS!!!! ZOMG!!! i want one!!!!

 

[inthegrass]

reading this thread makes me wonder how many people do or would keep illegal reptiles or other things.
cheers

 

[dansfish4tea]

I think most ppl would keep an exotic
if they got an oppintunity to keep there fav animal most ppl would jump to the oppintunity

i have herd of ppl keepin freshies down here in newy which is ilegal in nsw

but i think its LEGAL to keep them in the ACT? go figure

can any1 get me a freshie?

 

[thesilverbeast]

are any species of monkey legal because a few years ago i met someone who was carrying a monkey around. it was wearing a diaper

it would have been a good 15 years ago, were the laws different then?

 

[da_donkey]

It's amazing what some people will stick up their backsides! Probably explains why a lot of thorny devils aren't smuggled out this way

hahahahah call of the day for sure :lol::lol:

 

[Pythons_Reptiles]

The rule is
If you want to keep an illegal reptile just rename it, Seems to work with the Jags. I have seen heaps of pics on the net in Australia of the new jungle colours available.
Also all the albinos just appeared in Australia one day.
Some may be from here others are from over seas.
Maybe try Bull mastif x tabbie cat (Tiger Cub)
HEHEHE

 

[mikep]

how come we are not aloud foriegn reptiles but i have seen birds,dogs,cats from overseas they would do more damage than a repitle i just dont understand why they are aloud

 

[Miss B]

Foreign reptiles could do a LOT of damage to our ecosystem. On one hand it would be cool to own some of the reptiles available overseas, but on the other hand we really need to protect the rather uniqure flora and fauna that we have here. The fact that Australia is an island helps.