"SO if I found everglades rats at locality X in 1975 and line bred them for 30 years(10 generations) would you say they would be the same as locality X snakes I found today?? Not a chance"

HUH?????,...are you kidding me??

Jeff, how much is a solid orange snake with four faint stripes going to differ?..LOL!. Do you think the later produced F-10 offspring would become purple or something?

Other more complicated patterned and colored types of snakes could easily look a bit different from their original W/collected parents, but they can also look identical, or anything in between too. It does not change the fact that the parents came from X-locality.....EVER!

With some people, it is only about the very "idea" of having a snake's as least removed as possible from the parents, and it they "represent" them very closely....great!. But if they should look a bit different(or not), they STILL came from the parent's that where captured from point locality X.

What about looking at a 80 year old woman that used to be an absolute "HOTTIE" when she was young?..LOL!. The "idea" of having sex with her would probably be VERY different to you now right??, but in essence, she is the EXACT same genetic being she was before, only older......and OBVIOUSLY looks different now..LOL!

Yes, HUUUGE difference there, I agree!, it is only the "idea" that is way different.

But in any case, simply sell your stuff off as "void of locality" after the third generation if that makes you happy, but it won't change the hard fact that they came from locality-X parents.

It all really comes down to how thin you really want to split the hairs.

So, if someone asked you at your table..."hey, where did the parent's of these nice Everglade's ya got here come from?", would you say..."glad you asked, because both parents were actually captured from the exact same two-acre plot of land on my uncle's farm in Homestead, Florida, OH! but sorry, you best move on to that guy's table over there, he has some real locality Everglade's over there for sale...LMAO!

Bottom line Jeff, just tell folks what the heck generation they are, and move on with everyday life!


~Doug
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