Has anyone seen the new 2007 ICUN Red List? The Banggai Cardinalfish is on the list. There are also some corals listed as well. Interesting reading:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/
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Has anyone seen the new 2007 ICUN Red List? The Banggai Cardinalfish is on the list. There are also some corals listed as well. Interesting reading:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/
no, i don't exactly have fish right now, but that's only because i want to be a conscientious marine aquarist first.
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Interesting!!! This fish has been bred in aquariums for some years now, yet the wild populations are still declining!!!
Is Reef Madness Catchy???
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What a shame since Banggai's are so easily bred in captivity. Twice the price of wild caughts though so who cares let's save a buck right.
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Not surprised at all. I cant imagine 50 years from now what speicies will no longer be here.
Ray Allen
San Antonio, TX
1604 Culebra/Shanefield
rba0284@gmail.com
40g Breeder Reef Aquarium
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As long as there is a market for aquarium fishes and tourisim they will still be here. It is when there is no market and they have no use for something in a poor country does it go away. If you can't eat it or buy something with it, it becomes worthless.
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We need to make sure that captively propagated fish and coral don't get trade restrictions placed on them. That would be a disaster. How could you tell the difference between wild and captive bred? With coral you can sometimes tell by what the coral is mounted on.
Jack
Big whorls have little whorls, Which feed on their velocity;
And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity
Lewis Richardson in 1922
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