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CANBERRA DISTRICTS AQUARIUM SOCIETY
If you‘re not sure of your current breeders‘ status, check with the CDAS
Breeders‘ Award Chairperson.
How?
If an eligible breeder identifies a species on the Conservation project list
they would like to try to breed, they should contact the CDAS Breeders‘
Award Chairperson or CDAS President and register their interest.
CDAS will then procure the broodstock and supply them at no cost to the
breeder. Assistance from the breeder to locate suitable fish may be
required.
Once the breeder successfully breeds the fish, the offspring will be sold
through the monthly CDAS auction with all proceeds retained by CDAS.
After the cost of the broodstock has been ?repaid? to CDAS, the breeder
will be offered the choice of retaining the broodstock and returning all
remaining offspring to CDAS, or retaining the remaining offspring and
returning the broodstock.
Finer details such as: a suitable time-frame in which the breeder can
attempt to breed the fish; what happens if the broodstock dies; the size at
which offspring will be sold; and the amount to be ?repaid?, will be agreed
between the breeder and the CDAS Breeders‘ Award Chairperson and
CDAS President on a case by case basis before the fish are handed
over.
When?
Now if you‘re eligible! Contact the CDAS Breeders‘ Award Chairperson
or CDAS President and register your interest. One member has already
offered to donate some Endler‘s Livebearers to get things underway
(thanks Paula).
If you have a suggestion for other species to be added to the Species
Conservation list, contact a CDAS Committee member or suggest it at
the next CDAS meeting.