Of course first he has to prove fertile, then the scaleless has to prove genetic (sounds like there might be precedence for this), and then it would need to be recessive for your inbreeding argument to come in to play. There is probably a fair chance all of those will fall into place but then you just have the same situation as with every other recessive morph. I think almost every one of them has been started with at least one generation of inbreeding. Piebald might be an exception as I think the first cb piebald was from wild caught adult piebalds but for all we know they might have been related and I'm sure some line breeding has been done by someone by now.

I'm not saying inbreeding is good but it's done a lot and almost always to see if a new morph is even genetic. He'll probably start off by breeding this guy to his reported mother and some presumed unrelated normals. If this does end up being a recessive morph I suppose the mixed feelings of the public as to it's desirability might encourage inbreeding of a by a small number of breeders to work with it but I really don't think the inbreeding argument differentiates it substantially from any other recessive morph.

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