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Cre­ated: 12 Jan­u­ary 2023

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Cre­ated: 04 Jan­u­ary 2023

We wish you all a very happy New Year,

At the same time we would like to wel­come Malmø Museum Akvar­ium as a new partner.

On dec.1.2022 — 6 breed­ing pairs of P. deiss­neri trav­elled from Copen­hagen to Malmø, where they will be part of a breed­ing project. Below you see some pho­tos of the begin­ning pro­ces of set­ting this breed­ing sta­tion up, — its look­ing good and promising.

Also some P. linkei is now in Malmø, to be part of an exhi­bi­tion tank, where the plan is also to intro­duce the vis­i­tors of the museum to the crit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion of the nat­ural biotopes of parosphromenus, the peat swamps etc. We are look­ing for­ward to fol­low­ing this project as well along the way, as it develops.

Thanks to the ded­i­cated team at Malmø for engag­ing in this work — its exting to see

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Cre­ated: 04 Jan­u­ary 2023

Shar­ing here a link to a youtube video from a con­fer­ence in VDA recently, where Ben­jamin Wilden par­tic­i­pated from the Parosphromenus Project. The video is in ger­man, but we will later post some more infor­ma­tion about this con­fer­ence, and other pre­sen­ta­tions on the con­fer­ence, which has some impor­tance for the PP as well.

https://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​h​n​_​B​4​Z​K​9​7​J​M

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Cre­ated: 09 Novem­ber 2022

Parosphromenus spe­cial behav­iour 3

How much can you bend a fish : ?

Just look at these pho­tos of small paro-​males when they embrace the females dur­ing the actual mat­ing, — and you will see how much the male and female can bend around each other in mat­ing — it is quite impres­sive if you have the luck to see it or catch it on photo.

Also impres­sive is how the male, after the female have pro­duced the egg, will bend it body so as to catch the eggs on his side, before together with the female, putting them in the bub­blen­est cave which he has build for this purpose.

Pho­tos Olivier Per­rin 1. P. alfredi 2. P. parvulus

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Cre­ated: 09 Novem­ber 2022

Parosphromenus spe­cial behav­iour 2

Sexy eyes

Flash­ing in paro species, is known as one of the fas­ci­nat­ing and won­der­ful char­ac­ter­is­tics of the parosphromenus species. The way the male tries to impress a cho­sen female is often spec­tac­u­lar and often done with a lot of energy

But did you know, that when the male and female are approach­ing actual mat­ing, — they show their readi­ness in par­tic­u­lar ways, — one of these fea­tures being the appear­ance of a black bar occur­ring ver­ti­cal in the eyes. This is both male and female that does that.

It gives the fish a cer­tain look, quite ‘cheeky’, — and for those who have had paros for some time, they know it as – and call it it — ‘sexy eyes’.

We show you a few pho­tos here, and you can judge your­self what do you think  ?

Pho­to­cre­dit 1. P. nagyi (David Jones) 2. P. alfredi (Haji Badarud­din) 3. P. nagyi (HS Johansen) 4. P. bin­tan ’mim­bon’ (Karen Koomans)