Well .. so I have joined the discussion at SeriouslyFish about the first picture of the ‘deissneri’, because it seemed that it actually is a fish which originated from wildcaught fish coming over Karsten Keibel in Denmark, who recieved these from someone in Norway in 2008, – and was able to breed these. I had a pair of ‘deissneri’ from Karsten, offspring from these fish.
And I know for a fact, that Karsten got his fish from Norway together with another species – also wild caught – from Bangka, – but they were not separated. How long time these fish had been going together I am not sure, – and maybe not all of them did go together, but I know he recieved them from Norway in one plastic bag 😉 .. – and I would really not think thats the most certain way to be able to seperate all females correctly
Although, I do know that he was able to see that some fish had a pointed caudal fin, and some not .- also the female deissneri, which then became the mother of the offspring …. but anyway, I thought I should contribute to the investigation here.
I didnt realize the connection before I went to seriouslyFish and read the whole discussion there 🙂 … and then I suddenly remembered there was a story to these fish from Norway. I dont want to discredit anyone or any such thing, – but the findings of p. deissneri in Norway was a bit of an event at that time, and everyone was quite excited. And there was another species involved which was puzzling at the time. And they all came supposedly came from Bangka.