we would be with an enormous amount, its already huge from humans though, of fish that are extinct in the wild. its so sad to see that an animal has gone extinct, you can never bring that animal back BANG its gone forever. it happens to everything, including many very beautiful fish, but on the other hand there are fish that have been collected and then gone extinct in the wild but people can breed them and reintroduce them to their natural environment. i was rereading one of my TFH magazines the other day and it had an article of this beautiful betta, that looked nothing like a wild betta and had beautiful blue and red colors, but it was a wild found betta and it was extinct from its natural environment. i was reading another interesting one about collecting nothobranchius in africa and the last documented find of one of the species was 1952 i believe, so they were pronounced extinct, and they ended up finding a couple of them over 50 years after they were pronounced extinct. pretty crazy stuff, but even if all of the people in the world that cared enough about the environment and living creatures to do something actually did something, there are still too many people who don't care or collect for money and wipe out species. its completely impossible to control things that can be sold for money, people will steal and poach anything that they can make money on. i will only buy fish that are on the no threat list. although there is one that I'm going to get, that is endangered in the wild, but most of them in the hobby are tank bred and its against the law to collect endangered species for people who actually follow the law and regulations. the saltwater hobby is going to have to become more advanced and have breeding facilities to find out how to breed more fish before they collect too many and they become extinct, causing more laws against collecting things from the wild. if that happened the hobby would eventually crash from fish being too inbred. i would be devastated if i had a beautiful wild caught fish, like a tang or mandarin, and they went extinct without people being able to breed them. just thought i would share the rest of my thoughts lol
listen i just think people should actually care about things that are wrong and if they don't i try to change there mind. these things should be understood and you should feel sorry for doing something cruel and accept it if you continue. why do people go to prison? they killed someone and did something wrong and jail makes them think about why they are in there constantly and stress them for doing something cruel. again, unless they are the kind of person who doea it without remorse. if you had a friend who killed someone while driving and they were at fault and didn't feel bad, would you stay friends with them? whats to say humans should control everything on earth without feeling guilty about it because they are knowledgable and feel feelings. are you a person who eats meat but doesn't feel bad about slaughter houses and eating steak but thinks its weird and sad that cats and dogs get eaten in other parts of the world. people who believe in buddhism either don't eat meat because they don't believe in any kind of killing or they eat meat that someone else killed amd feel for the animal. i take for instance a scene of avatar. the girl shoots a dog with the bow to save the guy, but she feels bad for it and cries. things have to be done sometimes, but if more people cared and actually tried to make things better on every living creature this world would be a much better place. these posts are now completely off topic but i have my opinions and i wont be rude about them but i will stand by them. imo if a breeder culls what truly need to be culled and puts it to good use, like hukit using cull as fertilizer or bob mccoy feeding his angels, rather than just tossing it without thinking twice because they won't sell then its OK. but too many people raise fry to ages where they won't get eaten and just kill them unethically it is wrong
