Good, I am glad to hear that we are not entirely disencouraging you 🙂
For me the way it could be done which I would have no hesitation about would have been if for example you had lived near me and you could have had some of the 100 linkei which I have.
1. Linkei is rather big and more robust of all paros
2. Linkei is a good fish to learn about paros for this reason. Paros are not difficult once you get to know it, they really are not, – but when you first start, they are to some extend. It is always not a bad idea to start with linkei and learn from these
3. Linkei are beautiful, really beautiful
4. We have / I have and many others do, many linkei, they breed more easily than other species. It is not a species which will be in danger of dissappering suddenly. Many members of the project are breeding these, I am also still to some extend.
5. I am unable to have anyone take my linkei, I simply have too many. I am actually these days thinking that I will probably set up a larger tank for the linkei, – probably I would go with 80 or 100 liter, but I cannot keep having this many fish in small tanks. So it would be a win-win situation
6. You could start with a rather large group. I have just learned from our Hamburg meeting, that paros in nature lives in flocks, small perhaps, but they do thrive in groups, – but what is a group.? For a large tank like that, in my opinion you should have at least 20 or more.
In my 60 liter, which I refurnished yesterday I had to put in 26 linkei,- and then I stopped and thought, no thats enough. I had to for space reasons.
7. If you had any chance of transporting fish from Copenhagen, you would be most welcome.
That said, – I know its probably not possible, but it was also just to let you know that I would not at all think it is impossible.
A 240 liter beautifully decorated and planned tank, with a large group of p. linkei could work well.
Helene