One remark to our import by Ruinemans of Ornaticauda: As you all remember, the fish first were not able to be delivered, because they all had odium. They “healed” them and sold them than. I remember, that Peter said, after we posted fotos, that they were very small and weak.
Even Bernd in Hamburg didn´t succeed with breeding them, perhaps they were already sterile.
And I think we should think about the commercial importing of our fish – transport stress, wrong water parameter …
I think, the best we can hope from commercial trade is to get a pair, which produces offspring. Many of the wild caught fish do that once at the beginning.
If these offspring can produce also offspring and we manage to distribute them – the story ends lucky and we see the success in our census…
I have very old fish – now on to 10 years about – (still no Paros) – now I see that they are grown old man and ladies …like humans.
But nearly all wild caught labyrinth fish seem to have no more than one or two years … what are your experiences? My oldest two Spaerichtys selatanensis are about 5 years old … but they have been 8 ….
One of my lessons here from is: travelling is big stress for our fish. We should reduce fish travelling as much as possible. One longer transport is enough for one fish life (even with good water). Travelling reduces life-time of fish extreme.
So: look this time, that you organise the fish exchange at Hamburg in forward! Not to bring fish, nobody needs there! With Bernds fish there is no problem there, because he and his fish are “at home” there!