Parosphromenus is always our target in our fishing trip; among the described species that can be found in peninsula Malaysia are harveyi, nagyi, rubrimontis, tweediei and alfredi and paludicola and I believed there’re still some unknown species out there waiting to be discovered. For your information, some of them are on display in the National Zoo Aquarium now.
A fishing trip to Johor brought us some good news when alfredi are caught in our net.
This is the biotope of alfredi, the nice unpolluted black water houses this wonderful species.
The fish is extremely fragile as well, tranporting them have high rate of mortalities. I used to experience this problem for sometime but not until I started using Korton (breathing bag). This breathing bag forces the carbon dioxide in the water out though the walls of the bag, thereby allowing oxygen to enter the water through the walls of the bag to displace the lack of carbon dioxide. You can get more information here.
Herman is holding a bag of about 15 fishes P.alfredi, Parosphromenus have a nick name call “The jewel of the jungle”, it is a tinny little fish but with arrogant sharp and vibrant color.
Closeup on the fish.
2:17 pm on January 16th, 2010 1
Im am president of the IGL, a European-based association of anabantoid-fish-specialists. Five years ago I organized the Paro-network which comprises presently about 170 specialists for the Parosphromenus-group in 15 countries. Personally, I got aquainted with these fish by Dr. W.Foersch, the founder of Parosphromenus-aquaristics.
P. “alfredy” is written wrongly, is has to be spelled alfredi, named after Dr. Alfred, former head of the Singapore-based Natural History Museum. It has not been discovered recently, this information is wrong equally. Before it was described by Kottelat and Ng in 2005, it has long been known.
If you are interested to jpoin the Paro-network,please let me know.
Best wishes, Prof. Dr. Peter Finke (Bielefeld university, Germany)
6:37 pm on January 16th, 2010 2
Thank you Dr. Finke, post was amended from “Alfredy” to “Alfredi”, surprisingly the article title is correct.
Herman and I were the huge fans of Paros, me personally is crazy about this fish, when ever we go for expedition and I know I can find Paros in that area, I will not go home without one
Herman knew about it….lol
We definitely interested to join your network, do let me know more details. Thanks.
I can be contacted at natureye.com@gmail.com.
4:51 am on January 21st, 2011 3
I would like to be included in the network for information on who is collecting, searching, and publishing on anabantoid fishes. I previously wrote a book on anabantoids. I am now beginning work on a revised edition that must be completed this year for publication in 2012. This is an opportunity to add information and search for images. The publisher will ask for all new images in the book, so I would like to contact everyone who might assist in making this comprehensive and accurate. Thank you for the information on this site, and I hope to contact IGL and other organizations soon. – Robert Goldstein
11:50 pm on January 21st, 2011 4
We will provide our hands if required, do contact and let us know.
1:25 pm on February 12th, 2011 5
Joshua and Robert, I have included your names in our directory. You spoke of a person called Herman, too. Who is he? I have no address.I would like to include him equally.
You will recieve our Paro-newsletter.
Peter