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lane
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Well,
We released 9 of our Amphiuma's...
After getting in touch with everyone I possibly could, including the official herpatologist for the state of Arkansas we found that there were no legal loop holes for our goal with Amphiumas.
If you remember we wanted to try and captive breed them.
Anyway, there are no "official" rules or statutes for Amphiuma's so they fall under the general category that says you can legally possess up to 6 but you can not attempt to legally breed... If they happen to on accident you have to release the babys back into the wild.
He seemed to not be entirely concerned with the fact that we had 11, (of course I didn't lie) but he justs stated the laws to me and he said if we were caught we risked a fine up to $5000 and possibly jail time and so as you can imagine, neither of those options were appealing to either of us.
While I personally loved our animals, Lane was their main care taker and he grew particularly fond of them so giving them up was very hard for him to do... He actually cried tonight. It was heartbreaking all around for both of us.
We decided to let them go rather than to attempt to sell because we knew in our hearts it was the right thing to do (as opposed to illegally sell them). We loved them and we wanted them to have the best life they could have and we know that it's in the wild. So we took the $330 loss... that's how much 10 of them cost us.
We still have 2 lesser sirens and 2 smaller amphiumas left. We plan to keep these and are concidering turning the 180 gallon into a multi-species native tank.
For those of you who are opposed to mixing species, I understand why, I respect your opinions and heed your advise and warning, but we are still concidering it. You don't need to tell us all the reasons why this could be a potential disaster and we are of course taking that into concideration, so no need for you to waste time or energy explaining anything... We know... I was just being honest.
Damn fish and game...
I know, they are just doing their jobs...
So we've decided we're going to take up anther interest that is "legal"... we're going to be breeding hairless guinea pigs! That will be exciting.
Hope everyone and their large aquatic salamanders... and even the other ones are doing good.
Jennifer
We released 9 of our Amphiuma's...
After getting in touch with everyone I possibly could, including the official herpatologist for the state of Arkansas we found that there were no legal loop holes for our goal with Amphiumas.
If you remember we wanted to try and captive breed them.
Anyway, there are no "official" rules or statutes for Amphiuma's so they fall under the general category that says you can legally possess up to 6 but you can not attempt to legally breed... If they happen to on accident you have to release the babys back into the wild.
He seemed to not be entirely concerned with the fact that we had 11, (of course I didn't lie) but he justs stated the laws to me and he said if we were caught we risked a fine up to $5000 and possibly jail time and so as you can imagine, neither of those options were appealing to either of us.
While I personally loved our animals, Lane was their main care taker and he grew particularly fond of them so giving them up was very hard for him to do... He actually cried tonight. It was heartbreaking all around for both of us.
We decided to let them go rather than to attempt to sell because we knew in our hearts it was the right thing to do (as opposed to illegally sell them). We loved them and we wanted them to have the best life they could have and we know that it's in the wild. So we took the $330 loss... that's how much 10 of them cost us.
We still have 2 lesser sirens and 2 smaller amphiumas left. We plan to keep these and are concidering turning the 180 gallon into a multi-species native tank.
For those of you who are opposed to mixing species, I understand why, I respect your opinions and heed your advise and warning, but we are still concidering it. You don't need to tell us all the reasons why this could be a potential disaster and we are of course taking that into concideration, so no need for you to waste time or energy explaining anything... We know... I was just being honest.
Damn fish and game...
I know, they are just doing their jobs...
So we've decided we're going to take up anther interest that is "legal"... we're going to be breeding hairless guinea pigs! That will be exciting.
Hope everyone and their large aquatic salamanders... and even the other ones are doing good.
Jennifer