AFAIK some species on CITIES lists are endangered or threatened in their homeland but are numerous in zoos and private collections
this is how they justify destroying some and not others
if a country signs up to CITIES they are legally obligated to return a red list species to the country which it is native to
had it about 7 months, it still hasn't finished fully colouring yet
here is a picture gallery of the fish
http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/wrasse ... s-Wrasses/
makes you wonder why they smuggle them when they are readily available in australia
http://www.ultimatereptiles.com.au/html ... rsale.html
must be greed
if they made the fines higher or a prison sentence it might be more of a deterrent
The Clown and shrimps refers to our clown or coris wrasse and the cleaner shrinps
the wrasse is a busy little fish that spends its whole day turning over substrate and small rocks looking for pods
whenever he goes near the pair of shrimp they wave him away with their feelers
except when he wants a cleaning
it takes all types of people to make up this world donna :roll:
sadly i wonder, if the fire was deliberately started, what has happened in the arsonists past to bring them to the point where they would do such a thing.