Some good points John, we do need a better understanding on what these animals are.

This is not a "loaded" question, You have a male Suriname and a female Guyana you are as sure as it gets as to their origination do you breed them and just call them BCC?

Now I agree they are taxonomically the same sub-species BCC,
So the babies from this pair are still BCC and nothing different.

Now where does that stop? as the BCC has quite a large range and if you take a Peruvian and cross it with a Guyana the babies are still BCC. Where does it stop?

This lable has indeed hurt our hobby , and the lack of general understanding as to the complexities of this great animal, and our fixation on name tags has not done us or the animals any justice.

Nothing against the "morphs" but I think they have fanned the flame in our desire to try to keep our animals "pure". I have recieved many private e-mails on this subject and there are some great points.

In the end we have this EVIL DEMON the lable that is slapped on the animals we keep and we must find a way to deal with it.

Joel

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