Sulawesi shrimp seriously endagered

[imke_j]

Ichthyologist Fabian Herder (University of Bonn) reports that a invasive fish specie from Nicaragua seriously endangers the endemic shrimp populations!

The Jaguar cichlid was set free anytime from 2008 on for fishing purposes in lake Matano and has spread widely yet. Offspring of Parachromis managuensis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachromis_managuensis) (GÜNTHER, 1867) lives mostly at the sea shores, where shrimp colonies settle – but is also found in deeper areas. Since this perch is day- and night active and the Sulawesi lakes are very clear, this predator has a walk over on smaller species. It is to be assumed that it has no natural enemies either, which is so much worse

Those people keeping Sulawesi shrimp and having offspring should start exchanging breeding groups for conservation of this beautiful creatures….Please share this info in your local shrimp communty!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Managuense_with_eggs.jpg/250px-Managuense_with_eggs.jpg

[Anubia]

Thats all we need Imke_J..another threat to the Sulawesi's....They are a delicate species as we all know and to have a ravenous Cichlid introduced doesn't do the environment any good.

Let's hope the shrimp forum's and breeders manage to successfully captive breed these wonderful shrimp and populate accordingly.

be good....

[retardo]

Not good. The introduction of invasive species--intentionally, no less--is never good for native populations. *sigh*

[Plecofool]

I have high hopes for them surviving. They are very skittish shrimp.

Probably the most paranoid shrimp I've seen yet.

Sucks when people release fish. At least the cardinal will survive in the hobby.

[Plecofool]

We need to get all the these little guys tank bred before they go extinct.

[beijing08]

In Chinese, there's a saying...human consumption is the quickest way to make any animal go extinct.
jokes of course, but it tells the truth.
I think there's no way we can control these fish. We must do something about the shrimps.

[MananaP]

This is a great example of people's negligence, they don't look at what it could do to other species which have been living there for hundreds of years. This happened in my country in asia where people throw common plecostomus in the rivers and in the end ruining other inhabitants now it is hard to control and those fish can't be eaten.

[Broddan]

:cry::cry:

hopefully we can create good breeding program