If owning a salt water tank was illegal, what would you do?

[Kfactor]

put more money in my other hobbies lol

 

[Rusty_L_Shackleford]

I spent 8 years in Hawaii where possessing corals is illegal. I had a small tank I kept some small fish I caught. I snorkeled and treasure hunted a lot instead. But I moved to south carolina a year ago and was building a reef tank again within 6 months.

 

[Battlecorals]

I’d be in trouble

 

[saltyhog]

Since weed is getting to be legal in most places the neighbors will just think the blue light from my house is on the up and up.

 

[fish farmer]

Pursue my other two hobbies. Fly fishing and off the grid camping in my Tacoma.

Same.

 

[sg88]

Having reef tank in Hawaii is practically impossible due to local laws and that’s why I don’t live there.

Our “reef” tanks, at least the legal ones, consist of rock or rock-like material, locally sourced zoanthids and palythoas, some worms (feather dusters etc) and a couple of types of leather coral if you can find them. However, yellow tangs (and lots of other amazing species) are free if you want to capture them, and I spent the morning wing foil surfing over the largest reef tank in the world. And with each fall I was IN the tank instead of peering in…so for some of us the trade offs are totally worth it.

 

[KrisReef]

Collect a sailing yacht from San Francisco harbor. Go on a lot of dive trips in the Sulawesi Sea. Outfit the bilge on the trip there to safely bring samples back to the friendly ports near airport connections.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

It never stopped the herb growers, hopefully they will come up with a medical card for reefers!

 

[littlefoxx]

Shrug my shoulders and go keep guppies

Lol guppies are fun. Kept them when I was a kid in my freshwater tank! My huge goldfish always ate some accidentally cause he was HUGE, like he is bigger than my purple tang Max who is probably 4 inches. Elementary school me named him Swimmy and I trained him to come into my hand and let me pick him up for a few seconds.

 

[Dburr1014]

I'm a rebel.
Hang curtains and never let the police in the house.

 

[Waters]

Focus on one of my many other expensive hobbies lol.

 

[Paul B]

I would collect and keep local New York fish like I have always done. But my tank would be nicer looking than this

 

[i cant think]

Start a saltwater pond

that’s what I was going to say!

Just fill it with macroalgae and say ‘look at my freshwater pond’

 

[i cant think]

I would collect and keep local New York fish like I have always done. But my tank would be nicer looking than this

Are those Chaetodon sedentarius?

 

[7of9]

Travel more. I'd have more money and time.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Again @Gumbies R Us comes up with another great thread! I have no idea how you do it.

 

[rhitee93]

This happened to me with another hobby. I've kept turtles and tortoises for years. About 20 years ago my state outlawed possession of a species of turtle I had. Pursuing a license to keep them very quickly became impractical so I found them a new home. It was a shame as the pair had started exhibiting breeding behavior.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Again @Gumbies R Us comes up with another great thread! I have no idea how you do it.

Laying in bed, driving to the gym or waking up in the morning just eating breakfast, I'll just have an idea pop in my head and think "Yeah, I'll ask that on R2R and see what happens". Sometimes, I'll see someone else's post, and it'll give me an idea as well, haha.

 

[Paul B]

Are those Chaetodon sedentarius?

I don't know. But they are common here in the summer.

 

[paintman]

Keeping a saltwater tank will never be completly illegal. it will only be illegal for us underlings. Our overlords will still have them. Just like all legislation is designed to do.
If you can't handle that truth don't ask. if you want something sugar coated.....go buy a donut.