Ok, so i'm confused
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:37 pm
i was at a certain LFS recently that i don't typically go to, but i had 15 minutes to kill, and they sell "feeder" crayfish. i stopped to take a look at what they had and there were at least 6 different species in the tank. don't ask me what they were, but i could tell they were different.
so i started thinking, if they have these crays they must get them from the same distributor. so the distributor does what...breeds them? collects them? buys them from multiple breeders/collectors? i'm having a hard time with this. assuming it was breeders, wouldn't the breeder have mostly the same species? and if they buy from multiple breeders, wouldn't they pick ones in close geographic proximity to themselves? and wouldn't those breeders have probably only a couple species that likely they collected and put in their pond, most likely weighted heavily towards the regionally dominant species? and if its collectors, how could they sell them so cheaply? its long hard work to collect enough crays to sell to a wholesaler. so that didn't make sense to me. why so many species?
so while i'm squatting there looking at them trying to figure this out and trying to decide if i have any shot at picking out a pair that's the same species of anything, my 3 year old comes up and starts flailing his arms pointing at them (scaring the crap out of them in the process). about this time i decided it was futile and left. anyone ever see anything like this?
so i started thinking, if they have these crays they must get them from the same distributor. so the distributor does what...breeds them? collects them? buys them from multiple breeders/collectors? i'm having a hard time with this. assuming it was breeders, wouldn't the breeder have mostly the same species? and if they buy from multiple breeders, wouldn't they pick ones in close geographic proximity to themselves? and wouldn't those breeders have probably only a couple species that likely they collected and put in their pond, most likely weighted heavily towards the regionally dominant species? and if its collectors, how could they sell them so cheaply? its long hard work to collect enough crays to sell to a wholesaler. so that didn't make sense to me. why so many species?
so while i'm squatting there looking at them trying to figure this out and trying to decide if i have any shot at picking out a pair that's the same species of anything, my 3 year old comes up and starts flailing his arms pointing at them (scaring the crap out of them in the process). about this time i decided it was futile and left. anyone ever see anything like this?