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No, not Unter Wasser ;-), they have a scientific awareness as being studied biologists
I hope nobody misunderstands my amusement – beside that I also feel angry, I wrote the managers a letter and asked if it would be really so urgent to offer such specialists to not experienced aquarists (they always show a very engaged attitude about responsible animal keeping …). I also have a personal involvement in this case because my son, who was the first aquarist in the family, asked me a week ago if I know Parosphromenus miniatura, because he had bought two there … And I must confess, he is still a “normal” aquarist, wanting a nice mixed tank population in tap water … 😳
Yes i thought so and I would have been very surprised if they had been from there… Where did you find them, though?
Yes, the trade often invents “new species”. Mostly, this is pure nonsense, based on the trade’s interest to present new fish to a market which always is interested in “firsts” and “news”. There was one case, however, in which this was really true, and that was quindecim. All our quindecim go back to a single import of so-called P. spec. Manismata. For years we did not know their origin, for it is not at the town of Manismata in Western Borneo. It is at a place called Nanga Tayap. This was revealed in the original scientific description of Kottelat and Ng hence calling that fish rightly P. quindecim.
In a second case it is possibly of a certain amount of truth, and that is the fish we call “
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