Hello Peter
thanks for the welcome.
Today I am firmly convinced that consumerism has partly ruined our passion.
I remember with pleasure when 30 years ago it was all very tied to the exchange between enthusiasts and everything was the result of personal experiences.
Over time we have lost the patience to see grow projects related to their tanks, and remained only the need for all and now, for the half-year turnover of the layout, and the most colorful possible, including fish.
Personally, I have always believed that it should start from strains with defined locationin order to know as much as possible the characteristics of breeding, trying to keep in the time ethological characteristics of founder fish.
And to do this I have always considered it essential to have well-sized and mature tanks, in order to find a natural food for the fish. Trying as much as possible to feed adults with live food and grow young with what they find in the tank without the use of brine shrimp.
Also because the real success is not the event of reproduction, but the containment of births and in favor of quality in the growth of the fish.
This is the management that we are pursuing with AIB as our maintenance project, starting from trying fish with a defined location, keeping track of every detail of breeding, reproductions, transfer of ownership, and ensuring for each species a main breeder and a backup breeder.
We believe that this management is the right way to ensure the success of breeding and try to create an example of how a natural breeding can give more benefits than a higher human intervention.
My personal desire and that of the staff AIB is try to create a group of Italian breeders for Paros, in a similar way to what we are doing with betta and their different complex.
I am therefore convinced that the possibility to cooperate with all the participants in PP may be a further step in the construction of what I believe a common goal, namely the international exchange of information and fish as opposed to intensive fish trade, often grown between the antibiotics in farm.
really a pleasure to talk about it.
Greetings to all
Massimo