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Posted by Elaine T on May 7, 2005, 11:57 pm
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bassett wrote:
> Well it proves one thing, I,m not in your Killfile.
>
> And I,ve got no idea what an " arowanas " is. Once again you fail to see,
> that we don,t have the range of fish , that you enjoy, simply because our
> quarantine laws are a lot better then the non existent laws you have.
>
> In your part of the world, you can keep what you like, providing your not
> caught smuggling it into the country. Once it's "IN" your legal. Doesn't
> work like that here. If your caught with something , that is not an excepted
> import. and everything has to go into a quarantine station for a fixed
> period of time. It's taken, confiscated, and unless you have import papers
> or quarantine certificates, you not only loose whatever it was, but you get
> fined or jailed .
> And we do the same thing with illegal imigrants, that attempt to land on the
> Northern parts of the coast. They get locked up and then deported.
> bassett
>
>
Toldja I decided not to killfile you. You and I may disagree, but I can
live with it. You have some interesting viewpoints and I'm learning a
bit about Australia. I'd like to go there...legally...one day. ;-)
Arowanas are beautiful, 2-3 foot fish, best appreciated in public
aquaria. They're surface predators, jumping out of the water to capture
flying insects like dragonflies. The jumping behavior is VERY ingrained
and big fish will sometimes jump the second you take the lid off of the
tank. There are two Australian species, Scleropages jardini (saratoga)
and Scleropages leichardtii (spotted barramundi) so you might find one
in a public aquarium. Chinese consider them lucky, so some folks devote
8 foot tanks or even ponds to them.
http://www.keiththibodeaux.com/Aquarium/arowana/intro.html is a pretty
interesting article about them.
Elaine T __
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> And I,ve got no idea what an " arowanas " is. Once again you fail to see,
> that we don,t have the range of fish , that you enjoy, simply because our
> quarantine laws are a lot better then the non existent laws you have.
>
> In your part of the world, you can keep what you like, providing your not
> caught smuggling it into the country. Once it's "IN" your legal. Doesn't
> work like that here. If your caught with something , that is not an excepted
> import. and everything has to go into a quarantine station for a fixed
> period of time. It's taken, confiscated, and unless you have import papers
> or quarantine certificates, you not only loose whatever it was, but you get
> fined or jailed .
> And we do the same thing with illegal imigrants, that attempt to land on the
> Northern parts of the coast. They get locked up and then deported.
> bassett
>
>