[quote=”Bernd Bussler” post=4258]Now the mediator asks beforehand from a certain background knowledge and are only my address free and the interested party can contact me and gets his wish animals. I would also request background knowledge that would take time demanding that I could spend meaningful with my fish rather than sitting at the computer for hours and now I’m very happy times indeed. :woohoo:[/quote]
My experience with a mediator is such that I would rather try to contact breeders by myself. I’m sorry.
I am member of the project since 2012, and I have got one single breeder address via the then mediator. In the meantime I have received every paro (and even Betta) species this breeder breeds ……… and I have had no success in getting further contact to breeders of other species via the mediator, although I asked. It was luck already to even get an answer …… Also, I have never been contacted by the mediator because possibly another project member showed interest in my fish.
I actually need some females of different species (had more male than female offspring), but would not like to get fish of the same breeders again – because it’s always the same breeding line from the same parents. This also can not be the aim of breeding paros – to have a shrinking genetic diversity due to inbreeding and inbreeding.
And I would like to keep maybe a paro species new to me ……….. I find it inconvenient to first write to a mediator, who then (after weeks and months, in my experience) gives me a phone number of a member on the other side of the republic without telling me which species this breeder keeps, and without knowing whether this breeder is willing to ship his fish. THIS results in too many emails – and is annoying if it doesn’t lead to a successful mediation.And I as a breeder myself would prefer to talk things over with an interested person by myself – not with a mediator I don’t know, who doesn’t know me, and with whom I have to talk things over – and then the same again with the breeder ………………
How easy, if I could see in your profile “oh, Bernd has some P. spec. to give away”. I can think about whether I can keep this special species and so on, and then place my request. You know me from the forum (and if not – the mediator doesn’t know me, too – he also would be no help for you).
No – my experience with the mediator business is none too good …………..