Because I knew that the paroes in the tank might not at all show themselves, I had made a slide show on the computer with images from the homepage. These images of course was with all due respect to copyright etc, and shown only with species name and photographer. This was quite a good idea because you could then see how beatiful the fishes are.
But as it really showed up, my paroes were not so shy as I had expected. They quickly seemed to feel comfortable in the tanks, and in the p.harveyi tank the males were sorting out the territory, flashing to each other, and in one of the p.cf.linkei tanks one pair decided to actually get interested in each other, with sexy eyes and flashing and courting, male rushing back and forth to a cave, – all in all very spectacular to watch.
One visitor to the stand was a professionel fish photographer from Denmark, Johnny Jensen, – who was very happy to be able to photograph parosphromenus species, – so he spend some time there, and afterwards gave his permission to use all of the photoes on this homepage, which of course I am very happy about.
Heres a few of the best images he took
I was also invited by at least 3 different aquarium clubs to come and hold a lecture regarding the parosphromenus project, and the parosphromenus species, – and this of course I find a very good result for me, – then there seems to be an opening towards telling more about the project, and hopefully inspire more people to join.