Parosphromenus allani

Hi,

wow these pictures are beautiful! What setup did you take them with? (Cam/objective…)

I think the last picture shows a female. I had similar worries with my tweediei but finally, two of my three prooved to be females… However, they still look rather young…

Very good, Zahar, to meet you again, see your equipment and know you are breedig allani now. This is a nice species hat we lost for several times; let’s try to keep them now for a long time.

If water and feeding is OK: Try to exchange individuals.

I succeeded in breeding my wild caught (Sibu) allani. They didn’t appreciate my clay tubes, nor did they like plastic tubes or film canisters. But they used a cichlid-stone-cave. This made it impossible to see the eggs so I needed to see fry before moving the cave to a grow-out tank. I raised 5 juveniles successfully. Then I got another spawn and I have another 6 six-week old fry. So I now have 17 true allani.
Ph 4.8, about 60 microseimens, lots of tannin.

Thanks Peter. I collected my allani with Peter Beyer in Sibu in Dec 2015. They are 100% true allani.

As far as I can tell, all true allani in the US and Europe come from the few Beyer and I collected on that trip. Beyer has shared his with Hallman and Bussler in Germany. They’ve had trouble breeding them, but recently Beyer told me Bussler got some fry.

By the way, we also visited Sunggai Stunggang/Lundu on that same trip, but found the environment degraded and no paros. My friend Stanislav visited Lundu more recently and found the same, sad situation — no paros. He also visited Sibu and got some allani but didn’t bring any out of the country.

Peter, are you all still planning the meeting in Hamburg in September? I’m dreaming about ways to align a business trip with that meeting so I could join it for a couple of days. maybe just dreaming…

Dear Lawrence, some years ago I had fantastically strong true allani that were caught by Horst Linke and Michael Lo. Still formerly, there were fish here in Europe caught by Allan and Barbara Brown. But both are lost in the meantime.
I thought that the fish of Hallmann and Bussler be Lundu or Sungai Stunggang, but reading your story this will be wrong.
And yes: We plan the second meeting in Hamburg 22-24. September. It would be great if you could participate! Really! A Chinese named Wentian Shi will do so equally, who will visit Bangka probably twice this year (after having done so last year) in search of the last true deissneri. All “classical” locations of the species are destroyed.
Please come to Hamburg! Write to me personally if you need more information (peter.finke(at)t-online.de)
Peter