[Peter Finke]

[quote=”Jacob” post=161](…) I’m ignorant of biology, I’m not ignorant of the seeming inevitability of failure with chocolate gouramis. And that is the last I’ll say about chocolate gouramis, this isn’t the place for it.[/quote]
Dear Jacob, you asked a lot of very important questions, and the chocolate-gourami-thing is relevant for the Parosphromenus-friends, too. So, I am very gratful to you for your serious and demanding search for answers and your endeavour for a pretentious way of setting up and caring for an aquarium. It very near to many of my problems.
So let’s get back to the licorice gouramis, together, I hope. But we take your very interesting and scrupulous way of questioning as a motive to think about the question, how and where to offer a place for discussions like this, which enrich our Parosphromenus-forum but don’t break it’s boarderlines?! Surely, there are many questions transcending them, and we like to attract them and not to exclude them.
But I have another request: You have written some things from the American perspective (shops, habits, fish, methods and so on). At least it looks like this from a European perspective. Please, write something in our “American”-section about all that. It will be read all over the world! And we must try to develop the American-Parosphromenus- and blackwater-scene! Your questions and perspevtives on blackwater-aquaristics are very appropriate for pushing things further and make people thinking about all that!