Thank you, Peter, for your answer.
Of course I wasn’t aware of these nuisances in the background ………. I had only short contact to the first contact person you mentioned, before he became ill – and it’s him whom I owe all my paros which I got from one single breeder (the only successful contact I got via the distribution of the paro project).
My experience with the second person was as you described – I didn’t dare to say it as explicit as you did now, you having much more background informations than I have.
I understand the importance of this contact person you describe – so if certain breeders need to be treated with velvet gloves and don’t want to mix with ordinary people – ok, to each their own. I hope the project will find another convenient and sociable person who is able to fulfill this special task with the instinct required.
But, yes – for us simple folks 😉 – please discuss the possibility of establishing an exchange topic for project members at this forum.
One thing I would like to say: No, speaking for me – we are not only interested in the widespread, more common species. But being excluded from contacts to the “special breeders” we are doomed to get only the common species (which are offered by the commercial trade sometimes). It’s one aspect – to distribute your own (common) offspring into good hands. But speaking for me – I now have all the species offered by this one single breeder I mentioned above. And I was not able to get any further contact to other breeders via the project’s distribution – so I am not able to get other species than those commercially traded. The fact that I have no rare species doesn’t mean that I don’t want them ………. But the way it is now at the project, “common people” are as good as excluded from the exchange of rarer species.
And I think this has contra-productive effects to the declared aims of the project.