Dear Dorothee,
Dear Peter,
I can understand doro’s arguments about the Stress by transportation. But I can’t follow at all.
To my mind every paro from commercial trade had stress from shipping to Europe. Therefore it should be the same to fishes which were imported from interested specialists. The negative point about the commercial trade with huge numbers is the fact that most of the fish will die during further transportation in Europe, in tanks of local dealers, because nobody is interessted in this fish and the water parameters are wrong, or because of wrong parameters by their private owners during keeping.
In my opinion the non-commercial way is better to keep alive and breed more fish. Another question is if there will be more commercial trades in the future.
The transportation between specialist in Germany/Europe is another situation. How could we get rar fish and their juveniles to other interested people who want to keep and breed them? We need transportation. Special meetings are the easiest way to exchange species. What about the IGL-Meetings? I got my Paros from Martin and I’m happy about that chance. Should we stop the “Tauschbörse”? I don’t think so! Transportation is necessary to keep Paros alive in our community.
Yesterday I got contact to Indonesian paro group on Facebook. I’m working on organizing a few pairs of wild caught ornaticauda and real deissneri from these people who want to help me/us. They know the habitats, how to catch, keep and transportate those fish. If the weather is right they will try.
For me it is a way to get rar species without killing hundreds of them.
Kind regards
Chris