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I would think that the sucess of your breeding efforts would depend upon which phenotypes are dominant in which hybrids. In order to find this out you would probably need to play around with breeding them and experiment for yourself as to which traits appear in which crosses (perhaps in the less expensive morphs). This, of course, all depends on whether or not the hybrids are fertile or not. I would venture to guess that some of the hybrids would be fertile while some would not be, this seems to be the way that crosses, and hybrids, work out. As for investing in expensive morphs, just be careful that what you are investing in is an actual morph, not just an anomile, which would greatly reduce your chance for sucess as the trait would likely be much rarer and more difficult to produce (meaning that you would have to have just the right genetic combination in the frog you bred it with to get the morph again). I could not answer for you whether these are hybrids, or just color morphs within a single species. I would imagine that, if they are indeed hybrids, there is an Amazonian horned frog's genetics involved for the lime green effect, though I'm only guessing. You would really need to contact the breeder of the frog to establish this. I hope this helps you, I'm no expert at all when it comes to breeding color morphs as I don't breed them myself, I just have a little bit of a passion for biology. Hopefully I didn't lead you astray. Let me know if this helped.

Regards, EMWhite

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