Re: Species Maintenance Program

[rytireefs@juno.com (Phillip J Ryti)]

On Wed, 13 May 1998 06:58:49 -0500 Randy or Deb Carey
<carey@spacestar.net> writes:
>Julio,
>
>I've been thinking about how to properly encourage and and reward such 
>an effort
>for the local club.  Here are my current thoughts:
>
>With every publication, post each species maintenance registration.  
>This
>information would be the maintainer's name, the genus-species name, 
>and the date
>when this maintenance began.  However, a listing will be made only 
>after the
>person has successfully maintained it for a set amount of time (6 
>months, 1 year,
>whatever).
>
>For a club like the Apisto Study Group, you might want to add a date 
>for when
>this line began (and possibly the original or previous maintainer).  
>Contact info
>would be appropriate.  This would reward the maintainer with other 
>people
>contacting him for a supply of the species.  I'd add a requirement to
>participation that the person cannot ask over a set dollar amount per 
>fish, the
>rate based on fry-juvenile-adult stages.  Afterall, the intent is to 
>keep them
>available to fellow hobyists.  The maintainer should be able to make 
>some money
>for his/her work, but the acquirers should be able to afford them.
>
>The longer someone is listed, the deeper the incentive for this person 
>to
>continue--an older date is hard to acheive and can be impressive.  I 
>mean, if I
>have been listed for 5 years as the maintainer of some species, I 
>would have
>incentive to continue as it might be hard to let this listing be 
>dropped.
>
>Also, I would not include species which are considered commonly 
>available.  If
>someone is to register, they need to work with something that is not 
>commonly
>seen.
>
>Such are my thoughts.
>
>I'd register something, but I'm already looking at maintaining 3 rare 
>tetras and
>a "threatened" livebearer.  Surely the ASG has enough members to do 
>its share for
>the Apistos.
>
>--Randy
>
>
>
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