This is a very strange posting. It’s again about a “large scale order” for P. ornaticauda, that until now always has ended with hundreds of dead fish. But the strangest thing is that it mentions 10 pairs of true P. deissneri that an Indonesian “collector” has “organized” waiting for ornaticauda; the picture seems to show that species that has been never traded before.
I am very upset about this. P. deissneri is endemic on the island of Bangka only and, as we know personally by the joint expedition of the Chinese expert Wentian Shi and the Japanese expert Hiroyuki Kishi some months ago is left at one small place only in small numbers. All other known locations of that species have been completely dried and destroyed for the plague of new palm-oil-plantations.
The P-P cannot support any activities of “collectors” who engage in including a species left in minimum numbers at a single place only into that trade business of pure fish keeping. Announcing that collector-activity here is not meeting the mentality and spirit of the P-P. As an administrator of this forum I still hesitate to take stronger measures, but they perhaps maybe necessary.
True deissneri are present in Germany at two places with good breeders. There is no need to expoit the fragile source commercially!