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That’s right Bartian. Armin was kind and talkative. He had two bintan forms. He described one form (only females) as being more yellowish. From the other form, he had two males and some females. These are the ones visible on the photos above. I’d never seen Paro’s before (except on pictures), so I relied on his experience.
He told me that each of the two forms had been delivered by another supplier. I tried to find out what suppliers. Instead, he explained me why it would be impossible to retrace the exact origin of these wild caught fish.
They are roundtailed types of the bintan/harveyi group. I hope one day, my pictures will allow you or other forum members to identify them better.
Hi Helene and Sverting! Thanks for the positive and optimistic reactions. Indeed, last Saturday, I made a small excursion to the shop of a forum member in Holland. He even had some Parosphromenus ornaticauda for sale, but I preferred to stick to my plan: not to keep more than one species in a tank.
Besides, during more than a year I had been thinking of buying myself a larger tank. It would have been nice for the many, small but active, rainbowfish I was keeping at that time. The 5 P. bintan make me realize that I’ve got what I was dreaming of: the (same old) tank suddenly looks huge.
I will have to get used to their habits and behaviour, and so have they to mine. I’ll keep on feeding them on the same moments of the day, patiently expecting the day they will be waiting for food. 🙂
Thank you for the clarifying response, Bartian.
The question why someone might want Parosphromenus is worth a new topic. There are numerous kinds of wonderful and interesting fish …, as there are for ex. Sphaerichthys osphromenoides. Having a small group of chocolate gourami’s, I thought the Licorice Gourami would perfectly suit as company.
Gathering details on different sites and forums, I finally abandoned that idea. The Parosphromenus-project made me understand that these species are rare and threatened.
While reading, my enthusiasm has been growing spontaneously. Still having another, well installed tank, I’ve decided to keep Licorice gourami’s isolated, perhaps only with some schrimps.
