I never said humans aren't animals, did I?? We are simply the ONLY animals with ability to understand the ramifications of our decisions and to plan our use of the rest of the world, be that use animal, plant, mineral, water, etc, etc. Like it or not humans are natural resources ourselves, we routinely use each other to produce products, provide services and help us with our own happiness. Help with our happiness is the main reason we all keep aquariums, it makes us happy to provide for the creatures in our tanks and to watch them grow and thrive. Lets face it most people in this hobby pour our discretionary money into our tanks to help support them, if your good enough at the hobby for your skills and husbandry to help offset that expense, and that sale in turn puts a coral into another tank (hopefully to grow and prosper) then how is that not awesome?

I get the impression from some in this hobby that it's somehow "evil" to profit from the hobby, or the natural world in general. I really don't understand that mentality. I see threads all the time about some on line vendor or lfs selling a coral for $200 per frag, and the responses are "how can they do that to us", "it's just wrong to charge so much", "you know they don't have anywhere near that much money into that coral", "it's just all about greed". I am kind of tired of that, just don't buy the coral if you think the price is too high. Dont buy the coral from a fellow hobbiest if you think they cut to small of a frag from too small of a colony.