First you have to understand, its not a "one or the other" type of thing. I am proud to say, at this time I have eggs from pure flavis, pure gouldi, and pure argus. I also have have eggs for every combinaton of those three.
The first cross we had was pure ignorance. We bred a eastern flavi with a central flavi. At least thats what the books at the time called them. It turned out the eastern flavi, is really a gouldi. There are no flavis in eastern australia. So that was the first, gouldi/flavi cross. Then a few years later, I had a beautiful argus female and no male. She kept cycling, so in desperation I tossed in a flavi male. Only did that until I aquired a argus male.
Of course once the eggs hatched, I was not going to kill them off. You need to remember, I do not care for people as a whole, and its people who say they are different, its surely not the monitors that say they are different. As of now, we have five generations of crosses or whatever you want to call them.
Please do not give me the "its unnatural deal" its not natural for monitors to be in the US, its not natural for them to be in cages. And its highly unnatural for them to be kept in conditions that do not allow them to do what they do naturally. So you see, I indeed fail to understand what natural has to do with it.
The gouldi complex group is a wonderful group of monitors, whether they are or should be different species, is indeed in doubt and has been for such a very long time.
I will say this, I did not do anything special to cross them, other then putting them in the same cage. Not like some of the trickery thats happening with snakes.
Now, many generations later, it seems odd, that such wonderfully normal animals should be a problem. Surely they are not in country of origin and will not be released into nature.
Again it ends up, its all about choices, now you have more. You can like them or not, its your choice. F
