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Re: [Killietalk] N&R - Ron Schultz
Let me pick up on Ron Schultz's suggestion, which I think is a great idea. A
big problem everywhere is that most aquarists know about ebay et al., but
don't know about the importers who will gladly sell a box of fish (or fewer)
to an aquarist by pickup or sight unseen by mail or freight. I suggest
discussing a policy, perhaps to be scheduled for a part of the BOT meeting
at the convention, wherein any wild fish importer willing to sell to an AKA
member at some discount (say 10% but it could be less) would be entitled to
a free 1/4 or 1/8 page advertisement in the BNL, continuing and contingent
on a generally favorable response from the membership on how that's working
out. We could start the discussion next week, and let the BOT keep at it
until they get out the kinks and decide to implement a policy something like
this. Again, this is a suggestion to kick around. If it gets kicked out,
that's fine too. But I'd like the people who are elected to deal with issues
like this to kick it around. If several of you agree, then let's agree to
let the BOT deal with it; let's not go wild and tell them what to do and how
it should be done. - Bob Goldstein
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Schulz" <ron_schulz at gmail.com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:42 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] N&R
> Hi guys,
> One of the simplest ways to help get new and or rare fish into the hobby
> would be for the AKA to formally engage the very few importers of wild
> killies into this country. ........the two most well known being Atlantis
> Hatchery in NY and Rehoboth Aquatics in Texas. By engaging, I mean
> contacting, offering free AKA membership, promoting their importations
> with
> free advertising on the AKA web site, killietalk, BNL, etc, help in the
> ID
> of all imports, assigning collection codes, negotiating an AKA discount
> for AKA members, etc. etc. Note that this would
> cost the AKA virtually nothing as all the costs, hassles, risks are borne
> by the importer. Both importers advertise their fish on maintained
> websites
> and will sell to anyone with little or no minimum orders. I guess the
> question is whether this even minimal AKA involvement will result in more
> regular importations of a wider variety of wild fish. My hope is that it
> would. For both importers mentioned, wild killies currently represent a
> very small % of their total business. In fact, when killies are included
> in
> an order, they represent a small % of the individual order as well. So,
> even a doubling or tripling of the order frequency would be just a small
> additional commitment by the importer. Now... in the case of Atlantis,
> I've
> seen maybe 5 importations of wild killies in the last two years.
> Include in these shipments were at least 6 species of Epiplatys, several
> Chromaphyosemions, maybe a half dozen Aphyosemions, 3 species of
> Procatopus, Scriptaphyosemions, etc.
> All were desirable fish....from various collecting areas
> Guinea/Cameroons/Congo/Nigeria..... some common/some rare..... very
> reasonably priced and available to anyone. If the AKA can show some good
> faith to these importers with the results being maybe a half dozen
> importations a year by each, I think a steady supply of at least West
> African killies could become available to the membership. I have
> contacted,
> at various times, and to varying degrees, 4 current and past BOT members
> regarding this issue. So far, I have had no meaningful reply.
> ...........Ron Schulz.........UNYKA, MAKA, Dutchess County NY
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