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STOP No one is trying to import anything. Geez It was a casual remark on my part being very familiar with the farm raised fish sold in the US for “pets” which are obviously related to the fish he is catching in the wild. Most freshwater tropicals are farm raised for sale and many saltwater species are also to prevent the depletion of the wild stock. The guppy you see at Walmart with all the pretty colors originally were brought into Mexico and I think the southern US to help curb malaria which is spread by mosquitos by eating their larvae. They were all gray in color.
Drew and Castandblast… I think I either mistyped what I intended to say or you misinterepreted it…. For that I appologize. My main point was to discourage people from thinking its a good idea to transplant ANY non-native into our waters. I certainly didn’t think you two have any intentions whatsoever of doing so, but others might get the wrong idea (by no fault of you own) simply by reading a post about non-natives and transplanting… With problems with invasives in WI/MN, I don’t think we can be too careful… Put ’em in tanks all you want.. Just don’t dump ’em in the Mississippi when you get sick of them. (Point directed as general advice to less educated persons who might come accross this post and think its a good idea… Obviously, IDO’ers have much more common sense than that…)
Here is my PM response to a PM I received. I think this explains my thoughts about this thread a little better. Again, not at all my intent to criticize anyone in particular – instead, I did intend to remind people its not such a great idea in the US.
“Sorry you took it that way, it wasn’t my intent to bash anyone.
It took me a second read of your PM to even remember which post you were refering to. I guess I didn’t get the impression that it was antagonistic when I wrote it. I don’t even remember what forum it was in, and am having a hard time finding it to review exactly what I said!
Again, not my intent to bash or humiliate anyone. I think you took my post a little out of context. It was not directed towards anyone specifically, but more of a reminder for the guys in the states not to do this sort of thing….
If you think of it from my perspective, 99.999% of the IDO’ers on this site fish in the good old USA, mostly close to my home. Obviously you [the PM’er] are not a dumb person. However, if its even close to being a possibility that a few of the readers on this site take that post’s content as a green light to dump non-native species into lakes and rivers close to my home, then I don’t think its a bad idea to add a disclaimer post (in a sense — which is what I considered myself to be doing at the time I wrote the reply), reminding people that its really not such a good idea to do this back home.
The only message I was really trying to say was, “it might be ok for [the post’s author] to do it overseas, but lets not be silly and try something like this in our own waters, guys…” I realize that (hopefully all) IDO’ers are a little smarter than that, but I’ve dealt with some really uneducated people in the past, and would hate to overestimate anyone when it comes to helping safeguard WI/MN’s incredible water-based resources.
Does that make sense? Again, it wasn’t an attack, but considering how many problems invasive species are giving us here (quaga mussels, spiny water fleas, bighead carp, snakeheads, etc, etc, etc…) I’m not sure how great of an idea it is to publicly encourage transplanting non-natives, even if it is 10,000 miles from here. I realize that obviously wasn’t the poster’s intent, but some people might take it incorrectly. Not so much a commentary on [the poster’s] doings, but more of a commentary on what message do we really want to send to Joe Public….
Sorry you took my post as you did. Not my intent. 
Mike”
Thats my explanation of my post, I’ve already heard the explanations from others…… Lets all relax and let it go if possible….
