I’m sorry but I feel really misunderstood now.
I quit the idea of importing a huge number of ornaticauda because of the arguments and experiences you mentioned.
To my mind another way could be to contact people who are interested in Paros like us and live near their habitats.
Therefore some days ago I contacted the Indonesian Paro group on Facebook. This people are specialized hobbyists like us who discuss about the same problems of environmental destroying, want to save and breed rar Paros (betta too) and are not interested in commercial trade for this fishes.
They know the habitats because they have been there and know about the danger of loosing this species. They are also searching for locations were rar species survived, for example deissneri.
They don’t want to give this fish to unskilled people.
I asked if they could help to organize rar species like ornaticauda and deissneri in small! numbers for personal import, because the last census shows off that we don’t have much fish of this species.
For me it had nothing to do with commercial trade of rar species like deissneri!
That we have 2 successful breeding population of deissneri i didn’t know till to this day.
So yesterday I got the message including the picture that a member of this group captured some pairs of deissneri to “help us”. They organized really fast. Of course I was surprised about it and didn’t know how to react.
I shared this news with PP because for me it seems to be a good way.
Now I recognize that my effort is noticed as wrong acting of me by the PP. That’s why I feel misunderstood.
It is not my aim to import any paro for commercial trade, of course especially not rar species like deissneri!
To my mind it’s not reproducible what difference exist between the situation that a European who loves this fish goes there to get to know the environment of this fish, capture some by himself and transport them home for breeding and saving or if a local with the same knowledge about this species captures them and help to ship them to Europe. The stress during transport should be nearly the same.
In both situations hundreds of fish don’t have to die because of bad circumstances during commercial trade. Of course there is danger that they die during personal import.
I will try to import them by myself with the help of the Indonesian paro group.
I hope I will get living fish to breed and give them to interested members of the PP. if there are interested people…
I hope that I was able to explain my point of view.