Quote Originally Posted by Hypnotic Exotic View Post
I don't understand why there is so much secrecy with these combos. It would seem that revealing the ingredients would increase the sale of them. Keeping the genetics secret just doesn't seem to make sense unless they are only the beginning of another combo.
Sometimes they just don't know. If you breed two snakes together with 8 different mutations between the two of them, and you hatch out a crazy looking animal, sometimes it is hard to know what it carries. I mean, at what point do you start differentiating between whether or nor a lesser super pastel woma spider enchi desert might carry a yellowbelly gene as well? Really the only way to find out for sure is to breed that animal to a bunch of normals and see what pops out.

In addition, secrecy has been part of the reptile hobby forever. I agree, I don't like it and I think it's stupid. However, some people get a kick out of making themselves seem, for lack of a better word, "reptile-1337", by keeping projects a secret. I suppose they also might have monetary reasons to do so, which I also dislike.