The
PAROSPHROMENUS PROJECT

The
PAROSPHROMENUS
PROJECT

Re: Stocklist of an Oregon dealer

#3689
Peter Finke
Participant

Anthony, this is quite an impressive list! It’s rather similar to the lists of fish that are available in Europe, only parvulus is seldom sold here although the fish has the widest distribution of any Parosphromenuswe know. In nature, it is very frequent indeed. But it is too small and too difficult for the average aquarist. Nevertheless, for the specialist the display dance of a full-coloured male is spectacular.
The “deissneri” that you posted a photograph of is hardly to determine since it may be a female of a round-tail Parosphromenus-species. It is very likely not true deissneri as it is not in 95% of all fish named like this in Europe. At any rate it is remarkable that it is not confused with sp. blue line or sp. Sentang (“sintangensis”), as it is often in our country.
Did you order and sell any from this list? A rather well-known species which is missing in it although sometimes sold in Germany is nagyi.