Why is Practical Fishkeeping emailing you?
Anyway, the demand for this fish is only going to continue to skyrocket. That's a given.
Luckily, it should be fairly easy to spawn, and since the demand IS so high, many fishfarms will probably devote some effort to the mass-production of this species.
As it happens, there are already a great number of common hobby fish which are already extinct in the wild, or nearly so, and they have the pet trade to thank for their very continued existence. You wouldn't believe some of the fish on this list, never suspecting that fish so common in our tanks no longer swim free. ( for examples: Cherry barbs, white clouds, even Bettas! )
That said, while I don't think we should try to discourage the keeping of this fish outright, I do think that we should take sme steps to make sure that thes we do get imported are sent mainly to the breeders for now and few others. We should also not sell or buy them in limited number, that is, in useless numbers for establishing breeding groups. The Roseline barb, for example, comes to mind; very expensive, many people were only buying one or two at a time, and this was wiping out the species faster than anything else. These few fish couldn't breed and that wasn't doing them any good at all. This fish can be saved, though, if a deliberate effort is made to do so but it'sgoing to take some major cooperating among a lot of people who really, really, don't have a good track record of working together.
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