Most exotic animals seen on the pet trade

Big fish stores here tend to sell the native Gulf Saratoga (Scleropages jardinii) and sometimes Southern Saratoga (Scleropages leichardti) as substitutes for Silver Arowana. I never knew Clown Knifefish were in the country until I walked into that store and saw they had them!

 

Silver Arowanas are illegal in Melbourne im pretty sure, i know they can be seen in other states.

I havent seen a leichadti either, only jardinii's.

 

Apparently you can buy a Weedy Sea Dragon for $2000 here in Australia. I found this on a local online fish store:

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Wow, that's interesting! Captive bred possibly given the supplier?

 

What happened to Sealife Mooloolaba’s redtail catfish?

Frontosa aren’t fast growing at all, in fact quite the opposite. For a frontosa to reach its full size it normally takes between four and eight years depending on the fishes gender and locality.

 

The aquarium got rid of all of their large freshwater fish and renovated the area for Little Penguins. All the Black Pacu, Red-tailed Catfish, Alligator Gar, Giant Pangasius etc. moved to other collections.

 

I knew they got little penguins but I didn't realise they got rid of these exhibits! That's horrible! That was easily my favourite part of the aquarium.

I was under the illusion that the penguin exhibit replaced the old otter exhibit.

Do you know what happened to all these fish, turtles and the crocodile?

 

All gone - they moved them all to other collections - still trying to figure out where though. It was my favourite part as well and was such a great point of difference Sea Life Sunshine Coast had from the other aquariums.

 

SEAlife in Australia generally dosent like non native freshwater fish as a similar thing happened in Melbourne aquarium, except Melbourne Aquarium didn't have many large freswater fish apart from a tank i dont remember and it was mainly smaller exotic species. Right away the freshwater fish were phased out only leaving one tank with non native fish which just recently (last couple years) has now been converted into another (the aquarium already had like 5) tank for rainbowfish (too small to be Murray river rainbows)

 

According to the title of this post, Cotton-Top Tamarins are rare!

Exotic Animals For Sale

"Rare !! Cotton top tamarin Rare !!"

 

Not at all

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

 

I was just making fun of how they have to keep restating how rare they are.

 

Well, that's often a selling point for some people

 

Educational Animals

This education facility has an Andean Hairy Armadillo. I've never seen one before.

 

Interesting, looks like it could indeed be one. I'd like to see a side view though.

 

I'm no armadillo expert but what separates that from one of the other two hairy armadillos in the US or even a Six-Banded? The photo doesn't show much of the animal.

~Thylo

 

Given previous discussion I would be very surprised if it was what they claim it is. The one in question here seems hairy, but as you observe, what is the difference?
I'd like to see a side view to count bands and have a more overall look at it.

 

Exotic Animals For Sale

A man in Wisconsin has Grison (a surprisingly common Wisconsin critter), an Aardvark, and a Binturong available.

 

The Aardvark surprises me, wonder how he got it. The other two are around here and there.

EDIT: the GROUP of hyraxes is interesting as well, and apparently a group of Cuscus orientalis.

 

A traveling zoo near me has an aardvark that I believe they got from the pet trade.