It’s not my way of thinking to divide Paro friends into two categories; it’s the experience with many of the good breeders who need to be taken – as you put it – “with velvet gloves”. It’s a pity, but it’s reality. They do not behave rational, but they are as they are. Therefore we can try something similar to what you suggest, but i am pretty sure we need a communication expert for that sensitive communication nevertheless. Until now we hav not found someone.
The other point that Deepin’ peat mentions – transfer of Paros to other countries – will again be discussed in Hamburg, too. In principle, the thing is easily to be solved: There are companies which have specialized in the animal transportation business, but … it’s a matter of money. You can get a perfect solution but then one fish will cost 10 Euros or more. Nobody wll pay this. And you cannot compare this with the normal transport of ornamental fish from wholesalers in one county to partners in another: Either, there are people willing to pay (say with special Discus or large garden pond fish), or there is a huge loss of small mobile, oxygen demanding fish calculated. An sometimes it even struck Paros: I shall always remember te sight of 800 P. ornaticauda with 400 dead by arrival already; 300 followed during the next days. With many fish transports this is quite normal. That’s one reason why I hate that business and work for the private solution.