Environmental Impact of our Hobby.

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Originally Posted by jorjef

Back to the original question..

Do we help.?

I can't think of one possible reason how anyone in this hobby can begin to say 'they help'. Short of returning all the inhabitants of their tank back to a SUITABLE location or origin with the remote chance it will survive and reproduce Which its self is a ridiculous scenario ......You... Don't .... Help.

Do we hinder..

Ummm ya we do. There is zero benefit to reefs to remove any inhabitants for the hobby trade. ...None, zippo, nada.

In my eyes it is black and white... I'm not a granola eat'n tree hug' earth muffin. I do this for my own pleasure end of story.... For people who have taken steps to populate their tanks with tank raised this, fragged that, farmed blah balh blah, good for you.. But believe me any neub that is inspired by your tank and decides to take the plunge into this hobby won't have the relationships built up to be able to do the same.... End result off to the LFS they go....

And I can't really come to any different conclusion.