The whole outcrossing thing you just stated doesn't really make sense, to me. In any other reptile market, ball pythons, leopard gecks, or whatever, when you outcross a recessive animal, like an axanthic ball python, the name of the line you started with, stays with the animal. For example : A TSK line axanthic ball bred to a clown, those offspring are all Het TSK Axanthic and clown , those animals you breed back each other and let's say you produce an axanthic clown. It's a TSK line axanthic clown.Not just an Axanthic clown.



So people only breeding Lemke's to Lemke's and NE to NE lines just to keep them "pure" doesn't hold true in any other market. The het Lemke's that were outcrossed and bred back , are still Lemke's when they finally produce the visual form, Lemke axanthic. Unless the Florida king market is vastly different than any other reptile market out there, I don't see the why you would nitpick over an outcrossing from a verifiable visual form, like a Lemke or NE line.



Am I right or wrong ? I may not even have touched on the subject at hand, but I think I did. I haven't read each and every post. I just think it's confusing the issues for new comer's to say , "You don't have pure lines of Axanthics "( or whatever they are called ), just because they have been outcrossed maybe into prettier, lighter or darker normal animals.

[ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Show Entire Thread ]