Re: My annoyance on genetic ignorance.
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Originally Posted by
Draigess
In a case like that i hope your friend didnt buy the het ghost. If you ask a question about the animal for sale and the breeder does not give you an answer, thats just as bad as giving the wrong answer. Makes me wonder how many people out there have been duped into buying hets and got normals. The biggest problem i see with that is the over abundance of normals. Another problem is how to classify that animal. How do you know if you were sold an actual het animal that you just keep hitting bad odds on, or if its really just a normal? Then your stuck with something you cant sell for more than a normal even if it IS a het.
I don't know if he did. I hope not. I advised him against it ... Both because it isn't a terribly worthwhile breeding, IMO (50% possible hets, yipee) and because the seller was probably being dishonest. (I mean, who knows -- maybe the kid kept asking him, and the seller kept saying, "None," and he just didn't get it -- but it didn't sound that way.)
I'd imagine there are hundreds if not thousands of people who have been duped into buying "fake hets," whether it was from a seller who was utterly ignorant (i.e., someone who doesn't get genetics who genuinely thinks that the normals out of a pastel x breeding are all "het pastel") or just knowingly dishonest. Aside from the multi-thousand dollar "fake het" scams that you read about every so often on the BOI, I gotta believe there's at least a few hundred dollars' worth of local, small-scale, dishonest "het-related" snake transactions going on every week -- at least.
It sucks, but when you take something most people don't know a lot about -- Mendelian genetics -- and throw in the potential to make or scam money off of folks -- you're gonna get this crap. :(
