Well, as far as I am concerned, and many other's I know, it definitely does make a HUGE difference. I just can't roll with someone taking an entirely different subspecies and stealing the genetic mutation it displays, and be bred into an entirely different one, and sold as such. Some people only care about the "cool" colors and patterns they see. But I care about keeping a certain subspecies just that,.....a certain subspecies. That's really all there is to it for me.

Now some things like many of the hobby Honduran's out there, there is absolutely no way to reverse them now, and they are what they are, many can be a genetic "slurry" of one or more of the Latin American forms....polyzona, stuarti, abnorma, and even possibly one or two others sometimes. But this was NOT initially done on purpose to steal "cool" traits, and then sell them as something else,....this happened because of several things...

1) They originally were captured from one place, and imported out of another(convenience and politics).

2) They look very similar to "most" people anyway(if it has rings and a snout band, it must be a hondurensis..LOL!).

3) Most people don't have the slightest clue as to what the differences in these forms really are.

So it is very easy to see how all this got started in the first place, by pure accident, and just plain not knowing any better.

Now lets take the other side of the equation......some guy throws two FULLY-KNOWN, totally different subspecies, and throws them into a plastic tub so he can call the babies something they aren't,....THAT is exactly what bends me outta shape,...really simple as that. Now I certainly can't stop people for doing what they do, but by GOD, I will never endorse the practice whatsoever, as long as I live. I want to call something what it is, not what it resembles,......it's just the way I roll.


~Doug
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