Your suggestion of a geographically differentiated exchange forum open for registered members only is worthwhile to be dicussed. It is possible that this will be used by “normal” Paro-aquarists who need a male of this or female of that species or want to offer their 10 young nagyi or 20 young filamentosus. We shall do so at the meeting of the steering group in Hamburg in the beginning of September.
But your opinion about distribution in general is far from reality. We had a very good distribution manager in the first years who was communicating fast, friendly and with pleasure. But when he had to give up this function because of illness we unfortunately chose the wrong person to succed him. He was eager to get this function this but came out as lazy and not interested at all. Unfortunately, it needed time to realize this and fire him to hell.
The point is not this function, but the mentality of the good Paro breeders whom we have in Germany and some other countries. Most of them will not use the means that you suggest. It will probably be used by the occasional breeder who wants to see his offspring in good hands or is intested in the rather well-spread species (whom you think of, and that is OK), but we must have a constant contact to the specalist breeders with many species und rare species. I think their mentality to be wrong and told them more than once, but it did not change their minds. They dislike communication and forums; that’s stupid, but it’s reality. Bernd is an exception, or have you seen here other good breeders offer their fish? Unfortunately not. To hold them in our distribution boat you need a good internal communicator, who is eager to actualize the available offspring at different places and holds contact to the imprtant breeders nearly constantly; as we had one formerly, and not such an ill-suited person we had lately, unfortunately.
So, a combination of several methods seems to fit the needs better than one method only. We shall discuss it.