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CANBERRA DISTRICTS AQUARIUM SOCIETY
Species Conservation
Project
Why?
If you read through the CDAS breeders‘ award records you will come
across dozens of species that were once common in the local aquarium
hobby but are difficult to find. If you are lucky enough to find some they
are often of poor quality, or prohibitively expensive. The CDAS
committee wanted to do something about this and the idea of a CDAS
Species Conservation project was spawned.
The aim of the CDAS Species Conservation project is to increase the
availability and diversity of good quality aquarium fishes within the local
hobby. Affordability and conservation of endangered or threatened
species are also major elements of the program.
What?
Members‘ suggestions for species to be included were debated by the
Committee before the final species list was decided. The list has been
divided into three tiers:
Level 1
(Fish that are relatively inexpensive, yet are difficult to obtain)
Apistogramma nijsseni (Panda Dwarf Cichlid)
Chlamydogobius squamigenus (Edgbaston Goby)
Galaxias fuscus (Barred galaxia)
Pelvicachromis
taeniatus
(Striped
Poecilia wingei (Endler‘s Livebearer)
Pseudomugil ivantsoffi (Ivantsoff Blue-eye)
Kribensis)
Dehane,
Moliwe,