Why Are We Beating Ourselves Up

[dwarfgourami]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the sources I have been able to find suggest that if the species is extinct in the wild (still some debate) this is due to pollution of its natural habitat. This does not surprise me, as it is well known that China has huge environmental problems, with a lot of heavy industry, and a need for expanding agriculture to feed its population. It is a similar situation to that of the goodeids in Mexico.

In other words, this is not the fault of the aquarium hobby- to the contrary, this fish depends on aquarists to keep it alive at all! Its only hope is for numbers of experienced and responsible aquarists to keep it and breed it, keeping proper records, until the Chinese have got their act together and cleaned up their natural environment. At the moment it seems there is too much pollution for the species to be reintroduced into its natural habitat. Maybe it needs a special association, like the livebearers association, to look after its interests?

If my info is wrong, please correct me.

 

[Wanda hornsey]

I agree with you totally, its a similar situation to "now extinct in the wild" animals that are only available in zoo's a special breeding programs. Gene pools end up being a problem and there are nightmares with Interbreeding etc.

At least a gene pool for the WCMM is going to be larger as so many are in "captivity"

 

[jayjay]

well there not hard to breed according to what lot's of people say so we should be able to keep the species alive till china stops polluting itself.

 

[Phoenixfish]

alive till china stops polluting itself.

XD
good luck with that, with cheap labour everything is made there so its not going to change soon unfortunatly

 

[ncjharris]

I think you touched on it, but the key point in keeping animals in captivity before reintroducing them is keeping their genetics as pure as possible.

Reintroducing inbreed species would be a waste of time.....

 

[Phoenixfish]

I think you touched on it, but the key point in keeping animals in captivity before reintroducing them is keeping their genetics as pure as possible.

Reintroducing inbreed species would be a waste of time.....

yeh you would doom the species

 

[jayjay]

i know what you mean but it has to stop eventually, London used to be the biggest city in the world and Britain was referred to as 'the factory of the world' making nearly everything (look i do pay attention in history lol) so look how things eventually change.

 

[Phoenixfish]

yeh suppose but can the minow last?

 

[jayjay]

depends on people willing to keep them, how many we have in captivity for the gene pool and people breeding them. as long as people keep and breed them they should survive.

 

[Phoenixfish]

you also have the problem of thos tiny like 1 gal tanks sold for minnows

 

[jayjay]

yeah. i like watching minnows in big shoals. showing great bright colours in biggish tanks.

have you seen the long finned one's they look quite good.

 

[Phoenixfish]

lol im a quite a noob really, but i had to cram revise for my first(and only not for long) tank which is 2 months ish old so i dont know that many breeds of fish, but i thought there was only one breed of clowd minnow *googles*

oo nice

 

[jayjay]

there the same species just in the species some have been bred for long fins, some for different colours etc. i've kept fish for around 12 years but my mum kept them for me when i was little. i've had so many different species of fish lol.

 

[ajbettle]

hey, we just don the industrial revolution in history, and about how brtain was stated as the "factory of the world"......see i do pay attention in history!!!!! lol

 

[Phoenixfish]

there the same species just in the species some have been bred for long fins, some for different colours etc. i've kept fish for around 12 years but my mum kept them for me when i was little. i've had so many different species of fish lol.

kewl, i had two goldfish speedy and goldy when i was about 5 and yes they were in a plastic bowl (but we did use an airstone) ,
then we had (and still do) have 9 4-5" goldfish in our pond, and then we got the 4.5 uk for my bro but the got bored and i adopted
nevr mind more fun for meee