Thank you, Rafael,
Actually I am going for the allani.
My tank is a Borneo biotope and I would like to keep it as correct as possible,
I have been planning this tank for over a year, but up until recently I couldn’t manage to create an account here, for some reason it was rejected or didn’t go through. I e-mailed the admin but didn’t get a reply.
I had ornaticauda on my list, but Bernd told me that was going to be a disaster, so I followed his guidance.
He came up with allani first and then harveyi but since they are from peninsular Malaysia I think I will stay with allani.
Maybe that will still change but I guess I will see when I visit Bernd in Hamburg. My brother is driving, we’ll have a long overdue brothersday
I have never bred in a breeding setup, nor will I do so with the Paro’s, as I love the idea of a natural environment.
In the past I have bred many live bearing fish, as well as a good amount of barbs, Corydoras and labyrinth fish. In my community tank that I have since four years I have had succesful offspring from Corydoras paleatus and Trichogaster chuna.
This tank is my first blackwater tank, I have wanted one for a long time but never had the opportunity to do it the right way so I didn’t do it at all.
For the Paro’s I will ofcourse take more care, and move any free swimming fry to a floating setup inside the big tank, so they will have a chance to grow up and I will try to distribute the fish to other enthusiasts.
Maybe in the future (if my wife agrees to it, the new tank took me about a year until she agreed

) I will make a rack setup with
2 or three different Paro species as I have completely fallen for these amazing little creatures.
I will certainly stay in touch, even though the community here doesn’t seem to be very active, I have learned a lot from the topics that are already here.