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Hello Helene and Bill,
Sorry I had some trouble uploading photo, but the link Helene inserted leads up to the picture. Thanks.
Bill,
Once the weather improves here, I’ll contact you about sending you some paros. We can work out the details once the timing is right, at which time we can discuss what I have that you might want.
I fly to Nigeria on Saturday for two weeks of work, but hoping to do a little fish collecting on the side, no paros, but maybe some killies…Thanks Peter. I collected my allani with Peter Beyer in Sibu in Dec 2015. They are 100% true allani.
As far as I can tell, all true allani in the US and Europe come from the few Beyer and I collected on that trip. Beyer has shared his with Hallman and Bussler in Germany. They’ve had trouble breeding them, but recently Beyer told me Bussler got some fry.
By the way, we also visited Sunggai Stunggang/Lundu on that same trip, but found the environment degraded and no paros. My friend Stanislav visited Lundu more recently and found the same, sad situation — no paros. He also visited Sibu and got some allani but didn’t bring any out of the country.
Peter, are you all still planning the meeting in Hamburg in September? I’m dreaming about ways to align a business trip with that meeting so I could join it for a couple of days. maybe just dreaming…
I succeeded in breeding my wild caught (Sibu) allani. They didn’t appreciate my clay tubes, nor did they like plastic tubes or film canisters. But they used a cichlid-stone-cave. This made it impossible to see the eggs so I needed to see fry before moving the cave to a grow-out tank. I raised 5 juveniles successfully. Then I got another spawn and I have another 6 six-week old fry. So I now have 17 true allani.
Ph 4.8, about 60 microseimens, lots of tannin.Thank you Peter for all of this information and ideas.
My answer to your question is the following: I would try to participate in Hamburg or anywhere else in Germany, Netherlands, Great Britain, France, or Belgium if I got lucky with the timing and could combine the visit with a business trip (as I did on my recent trip to Freiburg). My job requires me to pass through Amsterdam or london about 12 days a year, so there’s a decent chance that the stars will align for me, and I’ll try to attend. But i’ll need some luck.
For me the possibility of meeting Bussler, seeing his set-up, and getting some parvulus or paludicola or ornaticauda would make a visit to Hamburg quite attractive, so that sounds great to me. I’m sure everyone will be attracted to the idea of accessing new species, and this diaspora of the species will serve the project’s purpose — putting these precious eggs in many baskets (hopefully some of them good breeders) to increase their chances of survival. Of course, Hamburg wouldn’t be repetitions for me because I missed the last meeting there. Little said it was fantastic. And wherever the meeting is held, it will be wonderful to meet you and Bussler and Linke, if possible. And hopefully see Hallmann and Beyer again.they look nice. hopefully you can get Hallmann or Peter Beyer or Peter Finke to look and assess identity. I am not qualified.
I forgot to mention that I still have a single female P. sp. “Sungai Stunggang”
Bill Little got these from Europe but only the female survived shipping to Seattle.
She is lonely. If someone in the US has a male, contact me. Either I can mail you my female, or you can mail me your male!Thanks for this information Peter. I was able to visit Martin Hallmann on September 8. I went with my friend Peter Beyer. It was great to see his fish room setup, listen to his advice, and see some species that I’ve never seen before, e.g., parvalus. He also gave me a signed copy of the book you co-wrote with him! An extremely nice and gracious man.
Martin still has some of the wild-caught allani that we collected in Sibu but no fry so far. My WC pair in Seattle seems to have produced a few more fry, but I’ve left them in their parents’ tank, as I don’t want to risk disturbing them, given that they finally seem to be spawning. I’ll wait another month before sorting through the tank to see how many fry survive.
Martin also gave me some young linkei to bring home to Seattle. They arrived safely and are settling in nicely. I now keep five species of paros: tweediei, linkei, allani, quindemim, and nagyi. Each has bred, except the linkei, which are still too young.
We visited Aquarium Glaser near Heidelberg on September 8 and saw just one species. It was labeled deisneri but Martin Hallman, with whom I was traveling, said they were clearly Bintan. If I remember correctly…
