Thats because it's free and not regulated by law or any conservation organizations. There is no permit required and no one will check the size, sex or number of Amphipods. At least not yet. If someone in the Government knew what an amphipod was, you can be sure there would be laws and taxes on them. :anguished-face:
Right now I have a small tank full of the little buggers and they are probably not happy so I could probably be jailed for "CTP" or Cruelty to Pods. They are well fed, have places to hide, are in with their friends and family and in an hour I will throw them in my reef where the fast ones will find their way under a rock and live out their entire lives in peace.
Of course the slower, stupider ones will be fish food :oops: Survival of the fittest but for the people who own cats, remember most of that cat food is made of fish and at one time those poor fish were happily swimming around the ocean minding their own business until some unscrupulous Heathen scooped them up to make food for your cat.
And if you feed your cats chicken, well thats the same scenario. :confused:
I ate shrimp and flounder last night but those creatures were harvested and kept in comfortable air and water conditioned enclosures for years until they died of old age. Then after a short ceremony, they were carefully and gingerly grilled to perfection under the watchful eye of a Priest and Rabbi. :D
I won't talk about my white worms. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:
Of course if you are the type of person who quarantines, medicates and goes to church to get your fish last rites if they die of uronoma, you can't do this.
If just one of the thousands of amphipods has a disease like Corona Virus and he happens to sneeze in your tank, you would have to vaccinate all of them. You may think finding an amphipod vein to put the needle in is the hard part, but it is not. The hard part is not getting alcohol in their eyes when you swab them. They hate that and don't like the "Visine" you would have to put in their eye to relieve the pain. :)
