Parosphromenus is my most fascinated species and P. alfredi was a missing piece of puzzle in my collection. I missed out couple of chances joining Herman fishing them in the past few years but hopefully not this time round. We decided to made a “quick and dirty” trip to the known location in northern Johor; we budgeted only half an hour initially in the evening thinking to do couple of scopes and take some photo before moving to another location.
Unfortunately the situation was not as good as what we had thought; we faced a challenge when we saw some contractor actually fenced the entire swamp halting water entering it. We are actually feeling hard to understand its objective but the actions actually killed all the water living creatures living in the swamp and that including our prime target, P. alreadi.
This photo was taken before we start fishing, Herman was sanguine but soon after we were shocked when we caught nothing in our nets after 15mins of fishing, not a single fish!
The construction works.
After more than an hour of fishing (half an hour was originally planned), and praises God, we caught the only one P. alfredi! This is a gift consider all our fishing spots was actually vanished.
1:11 am on January 22nd, 2011 1
Dear Joshua, you sent an e-mail to me today. I shall reply to it separately.
Nice to hear from you. You must join the parosphromenus-project-network. There are no costs, and we will learn from each other.
Peter
1:57 pm on April 29th, 2011 2
Dear Joshua, some days ago I was with a friend in Malaysia to catch Parosphromenus spec. and we were also in Sedili to catch Parosphromenus alfredi. We managed to find the same habitat as from your pictures and have caught some Parosphromenus alfredi. So the population density is higher than one year ago and now it is possible again to catch Parosphromenus alfredi in this habitat.
Christian Hinz (Berlin, Germany)
12:18 pm on April 30th, 2011 3
Hi Christ,
Nice to hear that. Herman and I were passing by the area last month but doesn’t have time to go in, thanks for the good news.