I think this bloodline stuff needs some more commenting on. First off I would say that I doubt that many animals being offered as cubans are crosses beacuse anything you cross it with is worth more as a cross than a pure cuban. If you breed a cuban with a lewisi or a caymaninsis people get more money for calling it a lewisi cross than a cuban. I totaly understand the idea of wanting to get pure animals but when you start calling things "bloodline" what do you have, a brother and sister from Ehrig or Blair or St Pier or Tom or who ever and now you are selling them as "bloodline" how does the buyer know if it is true or not?

If they said they came from Eherig that would be a different story. I think a dealer should either say the breeder they got them from or not say anything about them because any bloodline means nothing past the breeder of the originals. Now Ben is a great guy and a very honest dealer with some top of the line animals { I know because I wholesale many animals to him and he only wants perfect ones}and if someone tells him they are Ehrig bloodline he passes that on to the buyer but there is no way of really knowing for sure and if we let people believe slapping a bloodline monicer on animals increases the value next thing you know it every animal out there will cary whatever bloodline is the most saught after and it will be the one that is for sale.

I have had an idea for a while that some of us bigger breeders should get together maby at daytona and start a regestry of some type and regester each one of our breeder animals with a pedigree as far back as we can go and have our "club" provide pedigree papers with each baby and micro chip them and you can only get the pedigree papers if you are an approved breeder now we can keep better breeding records of our animals and also command top dollar and give buyers a more reliable standard of purety. What do you guys think?

Rob

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