Neurergus kaiseri...anyone ever had or raised these guys?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.cann/Nkaiseri.html
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Neurergus kaiseri
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Neurergus are a excelent example how this hobby can in a great way improve a species odd of survival and how however people shelfishness can cause a species to become "protected" untill extinction. There are 4 species in this genus, all native to midle east and all critically endangered. 3 species are represented in our hobby, all 3 in Europe and 2 in the US on private hands. Of this 2 are TRIVING under the care of atentive caudata hobbists, with thousads being produced every year in Europe and on the increase. Kraiseri is one of them. The tird (N. crocatus)species unfornatly is critically endangered both in the wild and in captivity. They breed abundantly, the larvae grow, etc, but when there is the final step for them to become in adult form of young newts for some reason their inmune sistem becomes extremelly weakened and they perish for any oportunist bacteria they may share their home with. Of the many thousands of this newt larvae that were produced over the years, you can couth with the fingers of both hands the number that ultimatly survived to adulthood. But there is sign of hope even for this one, new and inproved husbandry tecniques are being developed which hopefully will greatly increase their odds of survival. So 3 species and a few subspecies mostly doing great in captivity, which should greatly increase their odds of survival, for our granchildren to enjoy. Rigth? WRONG!
The countries that the founder stock from which all of this wonderfull newts originate from, say that there was never any kind of export licence for them, even tho they were not protected by cites or any other kind of national/international laws, at that time! And even considering some originated from just a few colected by cientific teams doing reserch on the field! So now they are cites 1 and european nature protection agencys are unwilling to allow breeders to sell or even give their offspring because they cant prove the animals were legal! In England I beleave they already told keepers they wont allow them to legalize their animals...SAD SAD SAD. So now they are stuck with their newts and they cant give any away, MANY BLOOD LINES will go to waste and I already herd some were eutanizing their eggs. This has some time now, Im seeing animals for sale so I shure hope some agencies allowed the legalization of the animals, created paper work for them and allowed them to enter the trade. They wont be gone like that...but it would be a shame that one of the most sucessfull recoveries of a endangered species in private hands had to go undercover to survive...
The countries that the founder stock from which all of this wonderfull newts originate from, say that there was never any kind of export licence for them, even tho they were not protected by cites or any other kind of national/international laws, at that time! And even considering some originated from just a few colected by cientific teams doing reserch on the field! So now they are cites 1 and european nature protection agencys are unwilling to allow breeders to sell or even give their offspring because they cant prove the animals were legal! In England I beleave they already told keepers they wont allow them to legalize their animals...SAD SAD SAD. So now they are stuck with their newts and they cant give any away, MANY BLOOD LINES will go to waste and I already herd some were eutanizing their eggs. This has some time now, Im seeing animals for sale so I shure hope some agencies allowed the legalization of the animals, created paper work for them and allowed them to enter the trade. They wont be gone like that...but it would be a shame that one of the most sucessfull recoveries of a endangered species in private hands had to go undercover to survive...
These guys are fairly easy to get at this time. They run for only $30 a piece, which is crazy considering the colors they have.
Some people are having crazy success breeding them now.
Some people are having crazy success breeding them now.