Definatly worth getting new species into the country, gotta keep the hobby growing, and i can understand your theory with the splitting of money and fish between a group, like if there was only say 2males out of a group of 20fish, who would get the males? it would not end in a good way. It is an uncertain way of how it will turn out well, easiest way in my opinion, and correct me if im wrong, would be to get them through LFS, but once again that is not a definate way of saying you will get the fish or not.