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Re: Breeding cardinal tetras
- To: <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
- Subject: Re: Breeding cardinal tetras
- From: Susan Aufieri <susanaufieri at earthlink_net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:21:30 -0500
- In-reply-to: <200212231147.gBNBlxmJ018245 at otter_actwin.com>
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Going back 3 or 4 years, I remember the Piaba people stating that some 40
million Cardinal Tetras are collected per year, with about 16 million
surviving the journey to aquarist's tanks. That would be about 40% survival
rate.
Susan
Dave K" <kysard55 at suscom_net stated:
>>> ...of the millions of cardinals stripped from the wild, less than 1
>>> percent actually survive the shipping and the pet stores.
Mike Wickham questioned Dave K's stats:
> Where'd you get that statistic? Are you sure of its accuracy? As a former
> dealer, I can vouch that cardinals have a higher mortality rate than most
> fish, but I doubt that its near 99%.