“I decided to do it that way because it does not make sense to count animals that are either not able to reproduce or not fully grown. I wanted to get a comarable number that has a sort of an impact. Theoretically, with each of these pairs we could set up a tank that should be able to produce offspring. This means that breading pair has the potential to keep its species alife which is not given in single animals or monosex groups.”
Rafael, this is no good a decision. It is very important that even single fish are noted, because these species are rare and heavily endangered . We often had the case that a single male or a single female could help another person who looked for just the partner. In the case of rare fish species we must think in other categories than that we are accustomed to with most barbs or cichlids. A single fish might be of utmost importance and often was!