I’m interested in why the animal “couldn't be passed up”. Was it price? The question, could an adult male with a clearer pedigree not be found for a reasonably price, begs to be asked here.



I’m certainly not one to say don’t ever buy from a pet shop since I do so myself, but I find it interesting that given the lack of a presented history on this animal some of you staunch purists are still calling this a nice score. I can say nice score (and it is) because my well publicized standard is if it looks like a knob and acts like a knob it probably is a knob but then I get stoned for that view quite frequently.



In the spectrum of attitudes between the hybridizers and the purists I fall somewhere right of center. I can hardly fault anyone who wants to have high standards and seeks to preserve genotypes more purely but I equally can not fault the Thomas’ of the world who cry foul when it is evidenced that the purists are more willing to trash what they do than to practice due diligence in maintaining there own lineages.



I probably shouldn’t post this because the conversation is going to spin out of control but it seemed a good place to make a point that is generally lost down thread in a string of insults.



In any case let the mud slinging begin.
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