Interesting Twist on Toffee Project

[Russ Lawson]

Hi,

What worries me about it is the possibility for fraud it creates.

If I buy a toffee how do I know it isn't a toffino?

If I buy a female het toffee how do I know it isn't just a het albino?

I mean it isn't like a BEL where breeding it instantly lets you see what it was made of - you have to keep the animals long enough for any colour change to kick in to tell the difference between a toffee or a regular albino - and even if it colours up it could just be a toffino.

We all know there are dishonest people out there who just let out a whoop of joy.


dr del

I agree that with this project it will be extremely important to be careful about the source of the toffees. I am really curious to see how the toffino looks next to a toffee of similar age though - especially at adult sizes. If they are impossible to distinguish, it could create some serious problems down the road with the less honest people trying to pass off toffinos as pure toffees. Not to mention that some are already wondering if het albinos had been passed off as het toffees in pairs with real het toffees. I don't think that would have happened yet because nobody knew what an adult toffino looked like (or to my knowledge even if they went through a colour change at all), and they would be only a couple years away at most from having that come back to bite them in the butt if there was a difference from the pure toffees.