I should like to thank Peter, Lawrence and Jungle Mike for this fine report in pictures and Texts. Please put some of this into the ASIAN-forum, too (slightly changed, otherwise it would not be accepted).
But now some vital points:
1. Although I very much congratulate you for you success in the allani-case at Sibu location, I wonder what happened during the last years. The result of Christian Hinz’ travel about six or seven years ago was quite the opposite. He caught many male and female P. spec. aff. allani (= spec. Lundu or spec. Sungai Stunggang) but only two or three male allani at Sibu. Which location is the most endangered one?
2. From the viewpoint of our stock this is fine, because Bernd Bussler (who received all the fish of Hinz after his retirement) has quite a large stock of Sungai Stunggang, but the nice “original” allani was missing in our stock since Linke’s last trip about ten years ago. Therefore: fine result, now allani is back, one of the most beautiful Paros I ever had. And you can get the other form via Bernd; he has enough offspring.
3. Good to see Peter Beyer standing deeply submerged in the water; that gives an impression both of the deepness of this river and the difficulty of catching these fish at the riparian border in the thicket of grasses.
4. And it’s impressive to see how soft that waters are! Lawrence said that Peter should tell us how he measured the pH. And, Peter, how do you did?
5. In have necer been there myself. Since the beginning of the looking for Paros in Sarawak, there are always only these two locations named. Are there really no others left that would be worthwhile to be investigated? Of course, the eastern parst are probably too hilly or montaineous, but what about the more western parts? We learn that the deforestation progressed very fast over there. Or is the travelling situation so difficult that one is unable to reach other parts of the landscape?
Well, compliments to the three of us. And I echo Bill: Nice to see Jungle Mike. We all love his photos, but we have seldom seen himself!