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With great pleasure, I can finally confirm that tomorrow October 19, during the performance AIB betta Festival (in the Petfestival in Piacenza), at the stand AIB will have the opportunity to exhibit three tanks dedicated to Paros, specifically Parosphromenus cf. bintan (courtesy of
Hans Schellein), Parosphromenus gunawani, Parosphromenus phoenicurus.
I hope this is the beginning of a proper distribution in Italy of these beautiful fish.See you soon.
Massimo
Hello Peter,
Thank you for your support.I believe that the true teaching had in years is having patience in pursuing their projects in compliance with the requirements of the fish bred us.
Regarding my management guidelines, starting from the assumption that the limitation of a “tank system” leading of fact to a selection not desired in the progeny of fish founders, try to recreate the most possible the correct management system, including of seasonal variations and feeding with live food, I believe can safeguarding a proper keeping of the strains with defined location.
Regarding the use of brine shrimp with the fish fry, however its use is valid, but often I have obtained excellent results exclusively from tanks fully ripe, densely planted with many algae and with the presence of many natural microorganisms.
Obvious that this measure is associated with the desire to make a hypothetical natural selection in the tank, with the goal of saving no more than 30% of the fish fry, saving only the strongest, so try to keep the genetic heritage original, limiting the drifts that “tank system” forced produces.Thank you for your attention.
Massimo
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
