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People with interest in barbs or neon-tetras or live-bearers normally have no problem to find a neighbour with a similar aquarium in their surroundings. Such aquaria are everywhere today. The problems are being solved by products of a highly specialized industry (food, remedies, technical devices etc.) and pet shops. But aquaristic specialists find themselves in quite a different situation: Normally, they live in a “diaspora”, with kilometers, often hundreds of kilometers “empty space” on the way to the next friend.
This is the situation of the friends of Parosphromenus-fish in many parts of the world. Of course, it is different from country to country. Our new website should be a means to tie uns together nevertheless. But it cannot solve all problems.
Please, tell us the situation in y o u r case. How do you handle that problem? Or does not exist it at all? How is it in The United States, in Norway, in Britain, in Malaysia, in Japan?
Here, in the category “Global”, we are keen for information on that!
Regards, Peter.I find it still, even after several years of having had licorice gouramies, – that it is very few people that actually will dedicate themselves to keeping them for longer periods, – there have been a few that has tried, but only for shorter times, and then gave it up again.
So as it is now, in Denmark, – there are very few people, and I find that I have to turn to Germany or Norway, where there seems to be more people just now who are interested.
So my ‘friends’ in the parosphromenus schene are more than 100 km away in most cases.Here in the UK I find the situation is much the same. I do not think there are many fishkeepers who specialise in Parosphromenus. This seems to have been the case as long as I have had an interest in them. Of course most interest in Paros is centred among members of the AAGB. But even then there is (as far as I know) no one specialist Paros keeper now. Although some members do of course keep some Paros with in their collections.
When I think of Parosphromenus and UK, I think of Willi Harvey and Allan Brown. And it seems to me that there must be some more – well, if not specialists then call them active friends of these nice fish! Of course they may keep some other species, too, but are there so few “pupils” of those two fore-runners? Where have all the fish gone which Allan has bred the last decades?
Peter
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