These are not ordinary fish. (4 species in the tank in total.)
These are fish that know how to fly. They flew 14,500 km from Texas to Saigon.
These are fish that survived more than 112 hours inside a shipping bag.
These are fish that have lost their homeland. The place their ancestors lived — Madagascar — has been devastated. They had to drift to America, and now to Vietnam. They are being protected from extinction by aquarists all over the world — a fate that has already befallen many of Madagascar’s freshwater fish.
Photos of the adult fish are by Jim Cumming and Jose M. Gonzalez — the two men who led me into Madagascar cichlids (Malagasy cichlids), and who are still helping me get acquainted with them.
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