 A research station dedicated to captive breeding was established by the Cape Department of Nature Conservation in 1976; the captive breeding program ran until the 1990s By that time, though water quality control problems had hampered the work throughout, the station had provided thousands of young "L. seeberi" public and private initiatives for establishing stocks.In a major gaffe, in the 1980s the species was established in the Twee River above some waterfalls which it could not naturally cross.In that region, the rare Twee River redfin ("Pseudobarbus erubescens") had managed to survive; it was subsequently outcompeted by "L. seeberi" and disappeared from some of its remaining range, bringing it to the brink of extinction.