Jornal Of Adding Wild Caught Tem...
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JN31;3916174; said:
He plainly states he is in Singapore...........
Singapore"s invasive problem has Florida's beat, you have a lot of exotics, you have wild gigas? I believe I heard before.
armac;3916741; said:
This was my concern too. I have traded emails with one professor in our local University and I complained bitterly about the invasive 'problem'. He said if that was a problem we shouldn't be keeping any exotic fish at home.
The logic is simple; Singapore does not have any natural lakes or sizeable rivers, only small forest streams. 99% our indigeneous species are therefore of smaller size (1-3 inch) and even the Channa Striata are evolved to adapt in such small forest streams. The biggest problem came when some of these small forest streams were dammed/inundated to form reservoirs/lakes. Again most, if not all indigenous species can't survive in such enviroment because they were NOT EVOLVED to adapt in such enviroment. So it is fair to say that their habitat were destroyed.
Now we have large volume of lentic water much like our tank. We have two choices; one is to keep the water empty. Another one is to introduce fishes that thrive in such lentic enviroment.
The professor says that as long as the exotic fishes in there does not find ways to the small forest streams which is typically few inches to 2-3 feet wide and couple inches to maybe 1.5 feet deep, what kind of 'problem' will there be? It is like after you build a new tank in your home and then someone tells you that you can only keep indigenous species. Does that make sense to you?
Yes we do have wild gigas.
HULON;3918945; said:
So much so that some of us were so protective about certain established and introduced 'indigenous' species. Giant Snakehead are one of them.
They were introduced in the 70s and some Singaporeans were claiming that cichla kills off all their channa micropeltes. Which is nonsensical because;1. Giant snakehead population may be down but never out. We have reservoirs that have cichla for 15 years and CM are still there about and thriving. Of course they will be lesser because they need to share their food source with pbass.
2. CM are introduced too.
The way I look at it more efforts should be put in place to introduce more food source (foraging baitfish) for the predatory inhabitants. The only way to increase the amount of gamefish is to have large base of food source supporting them.
In case some of us are not aware the globalised new world is running out of food with ever increasing human populations. The ecosystem is upside down. Keeping the lentic waters empty is not an option. Introducing fishes to thrive in there as an alternate food source in dire situations makes lots of sense to me.
Like the giant snakehead I am suspecting the cichla and other exotics were introduced by our authorities considering the professor's view and world food shortage which is about to hit us. They just don't bother explain to those 'green peace' wannabes.
Don't get me wrong, I am strongly against introducing cichla to Lake Tanganyika because they already have indigenous species thriving in their lentic enviroment, unlike ours.
you hit it on the head ! Its funny hear in the states peaople just dont realize the importance of farmers livestock and and green growth We take haven food for granted includung myself .Its funny my views on buisness are fairly conservative but hey commen sense is what it is for sure!!ikanyubodoh;3918913; said:This was my concern too. I have traded emails with one professor in our local University and I complained bitterly about the invasive 'problem'. He said if that was a problem we shouldn't be keeping any exotic fish at home.
The logic is simple; Singapore does not have any natural lakes or sizeable rivers, only small forest streams. 99% our indigeneous species are therefore of smaller size (1-3 inch) and even the Channa Striata are evolved to adapt in such small forest streams. The biggest problem came when some of these small forest streams were dammed/inundated to form reservoirs/lakes. Again most, if not all indigenous species can't survive in such enviroment because they were NOT EVOLVED to adapt in such enviroment. So it is fair to say that their habitat were destroyed.
Now we have large volume of lentic water much like our tank. We have two choices; one is to keep the water empty. Another one is to introduce fishes that thrive in such lentic enviroment.
The professor says that as long as the exotic fishes in there does not find ways to the small forest streams which is typically few inches to 2-3 feet wide and couple inches to maybe 1.5 feet deep, what kind of 'problem' will there be? It is like after you build a new tank in your home and then someone tells you that you can only keep indigenous species. Does that make sense to you?
Yes we do have wild gigas.
