Blacklist

[Zoom]

I noticed in one of the forums there is a "black list" of plants and fish.

Does that mean we are not allowed to keep thos plants/fish? Any reason why? Where is this governed from?

[Henk Hugo]

Yes it means they are not to be kept or imported. Mostly due to invasiveness of the species....

Department Agri and DEAT enforce it.

[Zoom]

Cool... you learn something new every day...

[JaguarCichlid]

Basically because you get idiots that get fish young and when the fish grows too big for the tank, they release it into the wild.
There is a link on one of the pages wrt pleco invasion, such a harmless fish that has turned bad.....
Do a google search too, there is lots about it..