NTT on IUCN List as Vulnerable

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Thanks to Fishes33 for posting this.

http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redl...tails/180679/0

NTT's are my favorite dat and I know most people dislike them because of SDS or other crap they experienced. Most people are probably rushing to their local Lfs in hopes to score some and make money after. What you do with your fish is up to you but I never look at mine as swimming dollar signs. I love them to death.

Call me crazy but I really love these fish and would hate to see it come to the same end as the pulcher. So I wrote to the River Monsters host Jeremy Wade asking him to shine some light on this fish and hopefully he can save it or somewhat pioneer efforts to bright the population numbers back up. I think if he recieved enough emails from us then maybe he'll take a second look and consider it. If you want this specie to survive then let's all collectively do something about it. I even offered my own NTT's for research if it ever came down to it.

Below is the email address to his office

office@jeremywade.co.uk

Thanks for reading and I hope you will consider my proposal
 
This has been mentioned here before.I thought the indos would be on some list before the thinbars did.
 
Not sure a few emails will do much but any effort is more than no effort. I'll work on something to send in, that'd be pretty sweet if it works. And it's a damn shame seeing the NTTs thinning out in numbers. :/ Sucks too because I've just been into tigers this past year and it seems like they're on a constant decline.. K, why do you think ITs would be here before NTT? Because there's more of em for sale pretty much everywhere?
 
Gage Zamrzla said:
Not sure a few emails will do much but any effort is more than no effort. I'll work on something to send in, that'd be pretty sweet if it works. And it's a damn shame seeing the NTTs thinning out in numbers. :/ Sucks too because I've just been into tigers this past year and it seems like they're on a constant decline.. K, why do you think ITs would be here before NTT? Because there's more of em for sale pretty much everywhere?
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I think that should be the case. The problem is that the sources of these ITs are often not identified, so it's hard to tell as to whether or not these are coming from Wild Caught stock, Captive Bred stock, or Captive Raised stock.

Also of note is the fact that the species (NTT) has only been assessed this year.

And as far as threats are concerned, it seems that overfishing for food and the aquarium trade could rank as it's principle threats, though things such as the planned Xayaburi dam could possibly have an affect on the population's numbers.
 
Gage Zamrzla said:
K, why do you think ITs would be here before NTT? Because there's more of em for sale pretty much everywhere?
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Yes exactly and I made a post expressing this fear a year ago or so...As far as this area is concerned,NTT have never been available in the large numbers that IT have been.I remember making my store rounds and seeing tanks full of these slow growing,slow to reproduce fish...I've seen it in a number of stores here as well as New Jersey so it probably is a similar case in other states on the east and west coast......not to mention how many young indos are collected and destined for other countries.Don't see how the species can keep up if this kind of collecting keeps up.
 
As much of a bummer as it would be I think it would be best to stop exporting dats for the aquarium trade until some solid proof shows up about successful breeding or at least an increase in wild population, and even then only bring back the ones that are being bred. Sucks, anytime people see my dats they're in awe because they've never seen or heard of them before (fishkeepers and family/friends alike). It's tough to protect something most of the world doesn't know exists..
 
The big ones are probably heavily fished for food so if importation bans are enacted,they are still not out of the woods.
 
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