Sorry for my late post on this topic.
I managed to send a total of 26 Parosphromenus over to Bill in Ireland. These were from 5 different species, and included pairs and some juveniles.
Because of the restrictions in the size of packaging, we decided to use the breathable bags. These have been discussed before in another thread, and were greeted with mixed feelings. John Walsh and I used them when we brought our fish back from the Hamburg meeting without any problems. But they were only in them for around 15 hours.
I bagged the fish up by 10am on the Tuesday morning, and posted them around 11. They arrived in Belfast within the specified 24 hours. But were then held by the couriers for another 24 hours before being delivered. By the time Bill had received them, they had been bagged for over 50 hours.
As Bill has stated, they all arrived in good health. As you may imagine, we were both very pleased with this.
So, in our experience the breathable bags work, and I would probably use them again in the same situation.
Some of the fish were young from the fish I obtained in Hamburg. As Dorothee says, it’s good to see the ethos of the project is working, and may it continue to do so. As the sad news about P. Deissneri shows, we need to do all we can to help these little gems.