Conservation of Freshwater Fish Species facing extinction

[Byron]

An interesting article, pointing out some very real threats that freshwater fish are facing. While "basement fish tanks" is not the end answer, channeling resources and efforts into projects like this would be far more beneficial than making fish that "glo" or blow up like a balloon.

Basement Preservationists: Can Hobbyists Save Rare Fish from Extinction?

Freshwater fish are the most endangered group of vertebrates on earth. Now, networks of home-based aquarists are trying to save some of the most threatened species, keeping them alive in basement aquariums in the hope they might someday be reintroduced into the wild.

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[Retired Viking]

I totally agree, that is quite the set up.

 

[Colin_T]

An interesting article, pointing out some very real threats that freshwater fish are facing. While "basement fish tanks" is not the end answer, channeling resources and efforts into projects like this would be far more beneficial than making fish that "glo" or blow up

like a balloon.

sorry Byron, couldn't resist seeing fish that blow up
like a balloon

A lot of the guys in ANGFA do a similar thing. They keep rainbowfishes and other freshwater fishes from Australia and New Guinea and try to maintain those species in captivity.

There are people at Murdoch University who study and keep the native fishes from the south-west of Western Australia. They have identified a new species of pygmy perch and some of them are trying to keep the endangered salamanderfish (Lepidogalaxias salamandroides), which is a prehistoric species that aestivates, and the only fish in the world that has a neck that allows its head to move independently of the body.