Strange Question for TBS

JayGatsby · 04/22/2012, 12:00 PM

Sooo... when I got rock from Richard for my 75g reef back in the day, I got a few less-than-desirable hangers-on. I set up a side tank for them and eventually over the years they all lived out their lives. I no longer want to run a "side tank." I am building a nano, and therefore the side tank is now my display tank.

I live about 20 minutes from where Richard heads out to get to his land lease in the Gulf... Should I just release the hitchhikers into a rocky outcropping nearby? Is it a bad idea? Is it illegal? I'd rather this than kill them.

Cloudburst2000 · 04/28/2012, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by JayGatsby

Sooo... when I got rock from Richard for my 75g reef back in the day, I got a few less-than-desirable hangers-on. I set up a side tank for them and eventually over the years they all lived out their lives. I no longer want to run a "side tank." I am building a nano, and therefore the side tank is now my display tank.

I live about 20 minutes from where Richard heads out to get to his land lease in the Gulf... Should I just release the hitchhikers into a rocky outcropping nearby? Is it a bad idea? Is it illegal? I'd rather this than kill them.

Don't release them back into the wild. It might introduce disease. I would check to see if anyone has a mantis shrimp that might want those for a snack. I plan on getting a mantis and putting the bad hitchers from TBS into the mantis tank.

JayGatsby · 04/29/2012, 10:16 AM

Good looking out, thanks.

mndfreeze · 05/10/2012, 04:57 AM

IF you want to ship em, you can ship any and all bad hitchers to me. I love the wierd stuff and my mantis loves the crabs and other oddball hard shelled stuff.

JayGatsby · 05/10/2012, 04:13 PM

I wouldn't even know how to go about shipping living beings... If you were closer I'd give it a shot, but I've got some pretty bad luck with things like that...

mndfreeze · 05/11/2012, 12:08 AM

Pretty simple actually, but I understand. I hate shipping live stuff too. Richard needs to just let me order a giant pile of pest crabs for super cheap. Fiddler cheap.

04/22/2012, 12:00 PM	#1
JayGatsby Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Pinellas County, FL Posts: 131	Strange Question for TBS Sooo... when I got rock from Richard for my 75g reef back in the day, I got a few less-than-desirable hangers-on. I set up a side tank for them and eventually over the years they all lived out their lives. I no longer want to run a "side tank." I am building a nano, and therefore the side tank is now my display tank. I live about 20 minutes from where Richard heads out to get to his land lease in the Gulf... Should I just release the hitchhikers into a rocky outcropping nearby? Is it a bad idea? Is it illegal? I'd rather this than kill them.

05/10/2012, 04:57 AM	#4
mndfreeze Invert Sexy Time! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Tempe, AZ Posts: 2,005	IF you want to ship em, you can ship any and all bad hitchers to me. I love the wierd stuff and my mantis loves the crabs and other oddball hard shelled stuff. __________________ Finally working again UNIX/LINUX admin! Will *nix for coral! Current Tank Info: Custom starphire 40B Mantis "Googly" tank

05/11/2012, 12:08 AM	#6
mndfreeze Invert Sexy Time! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Tempe, AZ Posts: 2,005	Pretty simple actually, but I understand. I hate shipping live stuff too. Richard needs to just let me order a giant pile of pest crabs for super cheap. Fiddler cheap. __________________ Finally working again UNIX/LINUX admin! Will *nix for coral! Current Tank Info: Custom starphire 40B Mantis "Googly" tank

04/29/2012, 10:16 AM	#3
JayGatsby Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Pinellas County, FL Posts: 131	Good looking out, thanks.

05/10/2012, 04:13 PM	#5
JayGatsby Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Pinellas County, FL Posts: 131	I wouldn't even know how to go about shipping living beings... If you were closer I'd give it a shot, but I've got some pretty bad luck with things like that...