RE: Killifish threat

Harro Hieronimus (Harro.Hieronimus at t-online.de)
Thu, 19 Sep 96 23:56 +0100

Peter U. wrote:

<I believe there used to be some desert pupfish many years ago in Oz.
<Aphanius aren't really that popular and most pupfish aren't very
<available over here as they are mostly illegal to begin with due to the
<Endangered Species Act which most of them are on. Mind you, that hasn't
<stopped some folks. :=)

Sorry, no killifish is on the CITES today, several are listed in the IUCN
Red Data Book. There's nothing illegal in selling or trading them.
However, pupfish and Aphanius seem to be rather delicate in some
parts, that makes even the aquaristic maintainment difficult.

Harro