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MrWizard, you are a wise man. Thank you for coming out with a sensible middle-ground, I have a habit of getting a bit polar in my arguments soyour thoughts are much appreciated!
I'll have to go and get breeding now then!

thats what I found out ... but then found that I can get three foot 40 gallon aquariums for $80us. So I will be buying 12 of them for breeding of fish. I am doing it for fun and will be giving them out. I will be starting a cory of the month club were I will have cory for people they will get 6 cory and only pay actual shipping and actual packing costs I wont be doing it for profit but to enhance our community hopefully I wont have any on arrival. But we shall see how it goes.

Sounds great, but it's a shame they wouldn't make it to the England bellies down! I'll have to convince my wife that a breeding programme for the UK is a good idea!
One question though, would captive breeding make the species weaker, I imagine you'd end up with in-breeding as the stocks will be pretty low and have fish that wouldn't make it in the wild even if they were re-introduced?

Arent loaches breed with hormone injections? I realize that this is the minority thoguh. Someone said that all botia species are endangered in the wild. Even the Clown loach? I remember reading somewhere that they are surprisingly high in numbers in their habitat(Borneo/Sumatra). Is this true? I also read that the fish have to worry about factories polluting their waters.
I am lucky, i can get dwarf chained loaches for only 6$. Is there any research going on to study loaches breeding? If not, i think it should start.
-As i read in the most recent issue of TFH, there was a day when, discus breeding in aquariums was very low. Maybee that day will be up soon for loaches.