Banggai cardinal among additions to Red List

[davo]

If you remember it was rejected to be upgraded on the CITES list (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78510&highlight=cardinal) but now:

The Banggai cardinal, Pterapogon kauderni, is among the new additions to the 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Pterapogon kauderni has been classified as endangered in the 2007 Red List because its small population has suffered dramatic declines in recent years due to over-collecting for the aquarium trade.
Earlier this year, the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) rejected a decision by the United States to protect Pterapogon kauderni on Appendix II of CITES.

CITES claimed that recent evidence showed that the trade in the species appeared to be sustainable and that the species could be exploited under proper management, making listing under a CITES Appendix unnecessary. (See CITES rejects proposal to protect Banggai cardinal)

Unlike CITES, which serves to prevent or control trade in endangered species, the listing of Pterapogon kauderni on the IUCN Red List will have little or no impact upon the trade.

 

[Twitterbait]

what stinks is that this is a species that can easily be bred in captivity and should not need to be harvested... just like clowns!

 

[Max]

Really, they and the other cards are much easier to breed than clowns. They have a much smaller number of larger fry and they are mouth brooders. Just look for one of your males with a swolen mouth and move to a q.t. tank. They also can eat much larger foods like cyclops or even finely crushed flake or frozen foods .
I so need to breed some clowns or cards
Max

 

[Pufferpunk]

I'm pretty sure I have a pair of PJ cardinals in my tank. Will they spawn w/other fish around? I see them doing a lil dance sometimes. One is larger in size & girth & the other has a longer dorsal fin.

 

[Max]

Yes, they will p.p. ,"well sometimes anyway", just remove the one with a full mouth to a breeding set up with pleanty of hiding places for the fry. After dad spits them out ," I think it's dad with pj's anyway," they can eat small foods like copepods, baby brine, etc.

 

[ewurm]

They should add it to CITES until a breeding program ensues.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yes, they will p.p. ,"well sometimes anyway", just remove the one with a full mouth to a breeding set up with pleanty of hiding places for the fry. After dad spits them out ," I think it's dad with pj's anyway," they can eat small foods like copepods, baby brine, etc.

It would be nice, if I ever see one with a full mouth.