The correct term for those who make hybrids is hybridizer. Just type that term into google. Apparently, no one here has ever so much as glanced at a plant catalog. Plant breeders have been making hybrids for a long time and many decades ago they began to refer to those who make hybrids as "hybridizers", so Venom, score one for you.

I will also agree with you that this hobby is very scientific. I personally find it ioffensive and ignorant when any "hobby" just invents its own colloquial and often misinformed set of terms, taht are just arbitraily pulle out of...you get my drift. When a hobby uses terms these should be in line with the science to allow for communication across a wider psectrum.The biggest problem that all hobbies face is the myopy of tinking it is the end all and be all of existance; it's own little sun with it's own little sattelites. This is something I have fought for years in the hobby of the domestic fowl and my recent book is aimed at creating a system of names describing the many color varieties of domesatic fowl based on their genes, and not some colloquial, hokey and meaningless term. I think the herp hobby is already in far better shape, but it can only improve itself by making the effort to increase it's reliance on science.

Andyes, venom, albino is colloquial and quaint in regards to creatures with more than one type of pigment!

BDR
Panoplia Geneticus

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