That practice doesnt sit well with MANY Doug. I also heard Daytona was a fiasco with his blow out pricing on high end morphs too. I can only imagine his reaction if someone had done something like that 10 years ago. It probably would have been better for him to approach other breeders and make bulk deals than sell to the general public at those prices.



As far as the release practice of various morphs of native species, it doesnt aggravate me that much. All those morphs were derived from wild caught stock anyhow (so they say)and are all pure E. guttata. I would assume the survivors, if any, will get diluted out in the wild population eventually. From what I have heard whispered is that most of the releases are non-feeders, and probably wont survive anyways. Sort of a last ditch effort on behalf the animals (ie, let nature take its course). The worst fear would be introduction of parasites or non-area related diseases, etc. to that local population.

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