Zoohaltung von Goodeiden am Beispiel Haus des Meeres in Wien

" Today, in zoos and aquaria, disPlay is not the exclusive aim as modem organizations try lo achieve national education, conservation of endangered species and behavioral enrichment as well as biotope conservation The fact that in most countries freshwater biotopes belong to the most threatened ecosystems, that their inhabitants are hi8hly endangered - but also quite easy to breed leads to well working conservation projects specially in aquaria and theme-zoos like The Haus des Meeres - Aqua Terra Zoo in Vienna. This zoo has been the driving for establishing the Goodeid Working Group in 2009 and is since then running a big conservation facility with meanwhile more than 75 goodeid populations of nearly all described species. In the future not only breeding activities, bur also research should be realized and an optimization of the maintaining conditions should be achieved at a smaller scale "