What freshwater fish do you think will go extinct soon?

[Kingdoffishcraft]

I've been doing research and looking at some old records from my old fishkeeping friends and they've actually seen a fish subspecies go extinct. Apparently there's a subspecies of datnoid pulcher in thailand that went extinct a few decades ago after people started mass harvesting them to sell in the aquarium trade and habitat destruction. I've been noticing some fish species are on the decline. One example is Salween shovelhead catfish. In the past thousands were cought and sold but now a days at best I would see 2 or 3 pop up every few months (not the artificially breed ones which wont reach the monsterous sizes). Anyone else noticing this or am I going crazy. I just feel like most monster fish are on the decline and its extremely sad to see this happen.

 

[Kingdoffishcraft]

Translation for the aquarium magazine. Apparently that datnoid was the last thai datnoid pulcher in existence.

 

[Midwater]

Apparently there's a subspecies of datnoid pulcher in thailand that went extinct a few decades ago after people started mass harvesting them to sell in the aquarium trade and habitat destruction.

Yes. It is not a subspecies of Pulcher, it is the species that is more or less extinct. There might be a few old specimens in aquariums around the world, probably Japan.

I have not seen any for close to twenty years. I used to have a few of them.

Some people try to palm off three stripe IT as ST (unfortunately on this forum), but they are definitely not. No one in Thailand expects to buy an ST.

 

[duanes]

Madagascar is incredibly worrisome to me.All the endemics there are found no where else in the world.
Overfishing for protein.
Invasive species like snake heads.
Habitat destruction.
I tried to make a dent by breeding them in my tanks, but the triple whammy above may be too much

 

[Friller2009]

My bet would be on Melanotaenia Eachemensis. Extinct in the wild. I am one of the few people in Australia trying to keep the species alive, but the bloodlines are so crap basically all the eggs basically are infertile. Maybe 3 out of 100 are fertile. And only one of those will hatch.

 

[Friller2009]

My bet would be on Melanotaenia Eachemensis. Extinct in the wild. I am one of the few people in Australia trying to keep the species alive, but the bloodlines are so crap basically all the eggs basically are infertile. Maybe 3 out of 100 are fertile. And only one of those will hatch.

Sorry, need to correct myself here, Eachamensis from Lake Eacham are extinct, however there is a few small creeks that are nearby with populations of them there, all be it small. Further research needs to be done, however that is unlikely considering the government doesn't give a damn as it is was stocked with gamefish, like Striped Grunters and Mouth Almighty.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

If they ever lose their popularity, red tail/rainbow/bala sharks.

 

[Friller2009]

If they ever lose their popularity, red tail/rainbow/bala sharks.

Balas and the others will always be in the hobby I reckon. They've got the "ITS A SHARK IN MY TANK!!!!!!!" that newbies love, and Balas are loved by most fish keepers

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Honestly, unless 4-5+ meter tanks start exploding in popularity, that's not a good thing for the bala sharks themselves. But unfortunately, you're probably right.

 

[krichardson]

Yes. It is not a subspecies of Pulcher, it is the species that is more or less extinct. There might be a few old specimens in aquariums around the world, probably Japan.

I have not seen any for close to twenty years. I used to have a few of them.

Some people try to palm off three stripe IT as ST (unfortunately on this forum), but they are definitely not. No one in Thailand expects to buy an ST.

It amazes and saddens me that with all the other things that hasve been accomplished over there no one has been able to breed pulchers.