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Parosphromenus harveyi (Brown 1987) is known from north Selangor in west Malaysia. The type locality near Batu Arang don’t exists allegedly any more. But we know about a larger distribution area around 50km north of Batu Arang on the road from Tanjong Malim to Sungai Besar where P. harveyi can find. This infamous area is called “The north Selangor peat swamp forest”.
In April 2011 Bernd Bussler and I have managed to catch only a few P. harveyi because the water level was high.the small creek upstream we caught P. harveyi
a little stream along the road
Just got some updates from an old friend about Tg Malim. Yes the area has seen some human activity especially on the northern side of the road from Tg Malim to Sungai Besar. Last weeks, a group of hobbyist went there and could only get very few Betta livida and B hipposideros, but the harveyi was abundant.
This was almost the opposite that what we had a few years back when could hardly get P harveyi but want having a “party” with bettas.This place is save for P.harveyi now, B.livida might need more time to recover 🙁
We collect quite a number of P.harveyi and it distribute every where.
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Dzul caught a unknown paros in Rawang/Batu Arang area too, still juvenile, cannot specified what species.
Bernd and I caught many B. livida inside of the forest right of the creek from your picture number four.
I’ll see the actually situation in October. But the area of existing forest in north Selangor is very large and therefore I think that there are inside of the forests more places to caught Parosphromenus and Betta as we know.Yes Christian, you are right, on right side of the creek have a small stream, water flow almost stay still, we caught a lot livida there about 2 years back, but only managed to catch 3 adult size, another pair caught at the creek.
Was there a year ago but had to push deep into the forest down the small stream and got badly scratched and bitten to find harveyi and livida
would be happy if can join u guys in expedition..
my house is not to far from the location..around 10-15 km i think..Dear Kindai, we forwarded your wish to our friends who will visit the region again. Yes, it would be marvellous if they/we could be accompagnied by you next time!
In a mail to me our new member Xi Wei Soo from Selangor, Malaysia, post code 47100, writes:
“Selangor going through lot of development over the years, most significant part is around Sepang and Cyberjaya area where B. Livida was once found there. For my short 4 years playing with wild betta, I never had the chance to visit any localities of paros and wild betta apart from B. Imbellis and B. Pugnax, although B. Livida is the first species I bred (…).Looking forward to keep and breed Paros Alfredi, Tweedei, Rubrimontis, Bintan as well as Harveyi”
Perhaps there is a contact possible between you guys over there? It would be nice if the “Parosphromenus-Project” could help with establishing those contacts!
[quote=”Peter Finke” post=433]Dear Kindai, we forwarded your wish to our friends who will visit the region again. Yes, it would be marvellous if they/we could be accompagnied by you next time!
In a mail to me our new member Xi Wei Soo from Selangor, Malaysia, post code 47100, writes:
“Selangor going through lot of development over the years, most significant part is around Sepang and Cyberjaya area where B. Livida was once found there. For my short 4 years playing with wild betta, I never had the chance to visit any localities of paros and wild betta apart from B. Imbellis and B. Pugnax, although B. Livida is the first species I bred (…).Looking forward to keep and breed Paros Alfredi, Tweedei, Rubrimontis, Bintan as well as Harveyi”
Perhaps there is a contact possible between you guys over there? It would be nice if the “Parosphromenus-Project” could help with establishing those contacts![/quote]
Thanks Dr Peter for introducing, we indeed knew each other and contact quite often :), still learning about this amazing little fish, I’m more into breeding and keeping them.
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