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Hello, I have a question Peter… I such a cases could be a good solution to put large numbers of this mixed fishes in to a quite big tank with a big numbers of caves. And carfully observe them and allow them to choose the pairs… Then could we be shure that male of P.sumatranus will choose female from the same species..? or any female will be intrested by him..? In first example we could seperate this pair and we could be sure that we have a pair of P.sumatranus…and other species…
Marcin Chyła
Dear Marcin, this is a risky procedure and I do not recommend it, at least not in a general sense. It might work with sumatranus, since we have this peculiar feature that these fish look similar to the bintan-group, but display head-up! In both sexes! Therefore I assume that the male will not take other females and the femals no other males than sumatranus. But in nearly all other cases (species/variants/forms) the mode of displaying is head down and we can be not sure at all whether the males of A will definitely choose females of A only, and vice versa. Therefore we try to avoid such a situation by strongly advising all friends not to take the risk of a soecies-mix. Maybe, the males/females themselves are more clever than we are and recognize the right partners even when we are unable to do so. But who knows?
Therefore, I should recommend to give it a well-controlled and -documented try with sumatranus, but – please! – not with other Paro-species!
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