I'll let one of the "big guns" answer the conservation status query - but
FWIU it's basically absent from the wild, although closely related fishes in
nearby areas are not...
Have they been bred? By the thousand! There are a few people keeping them
around here, and you can buy them in pet shops every now and then - they are
sort of common. But if I was interested in keeping them myself I'd get some
from a fellow ANGFA member who can be trusted (the two are not necessarily
mutually exclusive ;) ). There are some "eachamensis-like" fishes that an
unknowing dealer might sell quite innocently as Eachams. I think that this
is a general rule that could be applied to most Rainbows.
Regards, Andrew Boyd
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Andrew Boyd - andrew at pcug.org.au - http://www.pcug.org.au/~andrew
Rainbowfish Mailing List Archive: http://www.pcug.org.au/~andrew/rml.htm
"I have turned my face
To this road before me
To the deed that I see
And the death I shall die" (Patrick Pearse, Renunciation)
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