Køge Aquarium messe 2012- Aquarium fair Copenhagen

[helene schoubye]

Because I knew that the paroes in the tank might not at all show themselves, I had made a slide show on the computer with images from the homepage. These images of course was with all due respect to copyright etc, and shown only with species name and photographer. This was quite a good idea because you could then see how beatiful the fishes are.
But as it really showed up, my paroes were not so shy as I had expected. They quickly seemed to feel comfortable in the tanks, and in the p.harveyi tank the males were sorting out the territory, flashing to each other, and in one of the p.cf.linkei tanks one pair decided to actually get interested in each other, with sexy eyes and flashing and courting, male rushing back and forth to a cave, – all in all very spectacular to watch.

One visitor to the stand was a professionel fish photographer from Denmark, Johnny Jensen, – who was very happy to be able to photograph parosphromenus species, – so he spend some time there, and afterwards gave his permission to use all of the photoes on this homepage, which of course I am very happy about.
Heres a few of the best images he took

I was also invited by at least 3 different aquarium clubs to come and hold a lecture regarding the parosphromenus project, and the parosphromenus species, – and this of course I find a very good result for me, – then there seems to be an opening towards telling more about the project, and hopefully inspire more people to join.

[helene schoubye]

a few more

[Bill Little]

Helene — what a wonderful project and opportunity to show the hobbyists of Denmark what it is like to keep the various species of Paros. The photos taken by Johnny Jensen are also magnificent and it was marvelous that he permitted you to share the images with the membership from around the world! I suspect your three speaking engagements at the aquarium clubs will encourage other hobbyist to consider maintaining these wonderful creatures also. I also suspect those presentations will result in you being asked to speak at other clubs. I did my first presentation last month for a club here in Florida. It was well received and I will do it again in February for my home club here in Tampa which is considerable larger than the initial group. People are very interested in the Parosphromenus species once you begin to tell their story. Congratulations on your success.

[helene schoubye]

Thanks, – thats interesting to hear that you are also doing that, speaking in clubs, – that seems like the way to go. I will have to – once again – put up my courage and plan a presentation, – I dont feel so comfortable doing that :).
At the fair, suddenly I was also taken a little bit by surprise with someone wanting to interview me to a rolling camera. I have just recieved an email that I will be send a copy of this. I think it was for presentation also in a club of the whole Fair thing, – 🙂 … but anyway .. I am curious to see what it was I actually said.

I know another member from here, Stefano Valdesalici, also attended a Fair in Italy on the same weekend, – and hopefully he will start a thread and share his photoes and experiences here too.

[helene schoubye]

One of the effects of this fair participation has been that I has been put on the list of DAU (danish aquarium union) as a potential lecture holder, and for this reason I have been told that its a good thing to have some material made. Which made me remember that I actually – maybe more than a year ago – made a ‘film’ which I never used for anything, because I was not able to upload it and didnt know what to do. But I found out today that I was able to upload it to youtube by just changing a little setting, – so I did that.

There are a few ‘mistakes’ in my text, actually. I got wiser it seems since then, – but apart from that I would like to share it with you. I might redo some of it, edit and put in new clips and maybe alter the text somewhat.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XV72EiRTjs&feature=youtu.behttp://[/video]

[Mike Hu]

Wow Helene,

What an amazing video.

Thank you for showing us something that is so rarely seen. I’ve gained so much insight just by watching your video of these fish.

[helene schoubye]

Thank you, – yes, I am glad I found it again, I made it last year I think, and never did anything with it. Glad you liked it 🙂

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