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P. gunawani at Ruinemans

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Peter Finke
Participant

If this information is correct, Bartian, this will be of major interest to all Paro-friends in Europe! Hitherto, we had no clear commercial import of gunawani or spec. Danau Rasau before. Only two private imports, but with very limited numbers and the last without any females.

I think it is possible that the information of Ruinemans is correct, but I beg you, dear Bartian, try to receive more information about the origin of the fish: Are they really coming from Sumatra, county Jambi? Even then, there are some other forms which have been more often imported, and they are similar! Nevertheless, adult gunawani are to be recognized by their stout bodies and the colourful small bandings of the male fins.

Some photos would be great.

Anyway, it is likely that such imports do occur by several companies and in several European countries nearly at the same time, so maybe Glaser in Germany has got he fish, too.

We all should be highly interested since the species is otherwise lost at the moment in the project. Therefore, we should get hold of a bunch of pairs and have only one aim: to breed them. I did that once with animals that I got from Horst Linke’s private import, and it was not very difficult. They are niot as easy als e.g. linkei, but not as difficult as e.g. ornaticauda.

Praise to you, Bartian, for keeping your eyes open!!