Mike,
My opinion on this is very simple. If you are running a business, and your job, family, future, rely upon you producing and selling animals, then I have absolutely no issue with someone keeping the details of a project secret. Why should you? To some snakes are our hobby and we are happy to give away potentially expensive animals (I do this every year with various boa morphs, and probably gave away 60% of the amazons I produced over the years, and I have produced a fair amount for a hobbiest). To others, its a business, and a business is there to make money. In this current economic climate, when people are struggling to keep up payments on their homes, and losing their jobs, then you know what... I have no issue if they want to make a profit out of a project they have developed over a number of years.

You love amazons, so do I. You strive to breed good quality amazons, so did I (and soon again so will I). You want all of the information you can regarding a morph, well, so do I. But, and a very simple but, I recognize when people have other things riding on new morphs.

They state that they "believe" it is a super form, and hope to prove that later this year with several other litters. They are not saying it "is" a super form. Once they produce further litters, and once they get a better idea of the heterozygose form of this potentially incomplete dominant trait (if it exists and this is not the appearance of a new genetic trait), I am sure we will hear about it.

I have a question for you. Have you called Chris or Sheila personally to talk about this animal? Some people do not frequent forums. They may use classifieds, but maybe they have other things to do each day. I spoke with them about this morph over beers at Daytona and they were extremely passionate and enthused about their amazon projects.

Warren
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Dr Warren Booth / Director USARK
North Carolina State University
Department of Entomology

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