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Anonymous
hey /an/, ausfag here. i live in melbourne and i was wondering if anyone knew the laws about keeping the cone snail as a pet. also what should i call it if i get one?
>> Anonymous
according to discovery channel, bad idea. stay the fuck away from those things...
>> Anonymous
I wouldn't keep one...they are beautiful but I'm prety sure there is no anti-venom...you just die...also most saltwater inverts are difficult to keep. So keeping one would involve a saltwater reef tank...and if you have a reef tank you might as well have fish...but if you have fish the cone will eat them. We got in a shipment of some one time that where supposed to be sandstirring conchs, but were cones instead, we kept them for awhile, but we wouldn't sell them (lol liability) and we were too scared to put our hands anywhere near the sandbed to sell the coral in fear that a fucking harpoon of death would fuck our world up.

Though I'm sure it is legal/uninforced to own them.
At the reef store where I work we like to make the joke that we have to jump through all sorts of hoops to buy a gun, but we can have in about 10 things that can kill you in our fish tanks anytime we want (blue ring octopus being the most unusual..about $30 wholesale if my memory serves me).

tl;dr: go for it op whatever
>> Anonymous
i was thinking i could buy one, and buy cheap fish aswell, i would be feeding the fish and by feeding the fish i would also be feeding the cone. do you know any exotic pet stores that would sell them?
>> Anonymous
>>277528
not in Australia, also, like us, I doubt anybody would sell them too you for fear of you killing themselves...and like I sid we got them in on accident..as in some stupid islander grabbed cones instead of conchs and they were misidentified through the importation process, I doubt they would have a way of actually ordering them though a wholeseller. Somebody may know a diver or something that could grab some off the reef for some money.

Or collect them yourself I guess, A bag full of dead fish in the water anywhere around Australia might net you some?