Dear Massimo, you are very welcome with the Parosphromenus-Project! Until now, there are not many Italian members; please write to our webmaster that she should send you their names and addresses.
I am very much in favour of your suggestion to prefer private ways of exchanging fish and ideas and exclude the commercial level as much as possible; we really don’t need it (at least to far an extent) as far as Paros are concerned. This matches with my conviction that the commercial exploitation of the aquarium hobby bears many negative aspects; the P-P is a path towards a critical debate that we need on it.
An important point of our project is to preserve privately caught fish with secure locations (= definite location-forms of non-mixed species) by breeding and private distribution. Unfortunately, sometimes such forms are nevertheless lost and commercially traded fish replace them. But the project has a long-term breath and starts anew when an expedition has been successfully brought some forms home again.
We are proud to say that at least some species/forms could be saved until now by this policy, e.g. quindecim, pahuensis, spec. Ampah and spec. Lundu (= soec. Sungai Stunggang). Unfortunatly, the true deissneri is (nearly) lost; there is one pair left only, regularly spawning but no young are produced. We hope that we are soon able to go to Bangka for some new pairs, for that species has never been traded at all. And it is urgent, since the pollution of the habitats on Bangka is heavy and disastruous.