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OPINION

NATHAN HILL

Is the overseas influence good for our hobby, or does it carry with it some baggage? Different practices from around the world could shift our UK ethics if we aren’t careful.

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Nathan Hill is Practical Fishkeeping magazine’s editor, biotope fancier and aquascape dabbler, and the proud father of a lot of Julidochromis ornatus.
SHUTTERSTOCK

INEVER IMAGINED I’d be referencing Immanuel Kant in a fishkeeping magazine, but in case you hadn’t noticed, these are bonkers times and frankly anything goes. I’m falling back on Kant because even though he’s old hat, he made a couple of good points on which we can base our own moral thinking. And specifically I think he’s a good tool for deciding how we should address the ever encroaching subject of live feeding.

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