Hi Bill
I am sorry, I was a bit delayed in approving your first post here, – I may blame it on the sudden change in weather here in Denmark. All summer has been raining and grey, but the last two days has been sunny and lovely, – so I have not spend too much time on the computer :)..
But very warmly welcome here to the forum.
I was just thinking, – if possible, I would probably try to have a further look at those so called ‘deissneri’ – it has happened, that it was not a deissneri, but something otherwise really eciting.
In Denmark, it is also not easy to get clear species, – but theres one shop that sometimes does have paros, – and I always go and check them out, – perhaps sneak a photo and upload it here for help. But of course one shop in Ireland, may not mean its just around the corner for you :)..
There an interesting aspect in this whole paro-thing, that we perhaps focus too much on ‘clear species’ – in one way this is good and right, but in another way it makes us perhaps not openminded enough for the value of unidentified species. As yet, we dont really know how the different species are seperated, how they evolve, what variations may indicate and so forth.
Unidentified fish in shops can be a nightmare, – if they are really unidentifiable, or mixed, – but they can also be really beatiful and interesting. The so called blue line ‘variation’ which sometimes is very often to be found, resembles a bit deissneri, but is not of course, – yet its one of the most beatiful fish, and one of the more common at one time as far as I know. These – even though not clearly identified as a species, could be really important in our understanding of the development of the interrelatedness of species.. indeed perhaps it may even be a species in itself, but not yet recognised as such ..
I hope I making sense, – and I hope I am not too far from what other wise paro-people think, – I am not always getting these things completely right 🙂 .. but its just to say, that if you had the chance perhaps you should look at the ‘deissneri’. Who knows, perhaps it could even be 🙂 …
Just in the meantime untill we get some fish to you in Ireland ..