We destroyed wetlands, muddied creeks and filled them with introduced competitors. Adspersa did not make it. Victorian authorities presumed the fish, also known as the Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon, went extinct in the 1940s.
lived in wetlands and billabongs around Victoria, nestled among the riverbottom weeds.
Those involved in the rescue have started calling them zombie fish, “because they have risen from the dead,” says Tom Fair, who has been carefully breeding them at Melbourne’s aquarium.is a small, intelligent fish - no bigger than your hand - with silver flanks dotted in blue. Farmers have transformed the basin’s rich, fertile land into a breadbasket that provides a third of Australia’s food supply. But the environment has borne the cost.
“It’s trial and error - sometimes it’s not always easy to tell if it’s a male or female, so we pair them off regularly and try to tell if there’s any chemistry,” says Fair.
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