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DeHart
at Mon Aug 22 11:11:34 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DeHart ]
As one of the "Johnny come lately(even though I've been a pet owner/hobbyist/breeder for decades now)" that's currently being laughed at I have a unique perspective. Even if something is selectively bred "morph" or polygenic "morph" it is still a morph if it is a predictably attained through breeding visibly different phenotype...still not necessarily a "mutant." Over the years I've saw (and still see) "the boa gods," as they are called, market "morphs" after a relative few breedings without completely understanding genetics. They get away with it, and I don't understand why. How many Swedish jungles were on the market without knowing if there was a super being marketed as "codom?" Same for other codom/dom morphs. I remember multiple ads for het hypomels back in the day. I still don't understand why people aren't more inquisitive about why there's multiple phenotypes of supers in Aztecs (and why they seem to get more variable when outcrossed), not that I don't believe they're a morph. So, do Mandarin-bellies have a super? Are Onyx recessive or codom? All I know is my "morph" has bred out over the years to be dominant (although I can't conclusively rule out a super yet) in multiple litters, inbred, line-bred and outbred, with pretty consistent results although they are quite variable (as are jungles, Aztecs, etc.) and yet the "boa Gods" producing things they themselves can't entirely define are laughing at me! Meanwhile people are paying large amounts to them for ill defined morphs possibly just polygenic/line bred, or possibly having no super, etc.,; and don't even get me started on things like "dominant striped sand boas "
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RE: Just so you know..... - DeHart, Mon Aug 22 11:11:34 2011