10 years...
So year 1 the original desert.. a year to raise him...maybe two to viable breeding..
year 3 to breed and get eggs... any females? Maybe no females... breed next year...
year 4 to breed and get some females.. raise those two-three years to size to breed them...
year 6-7 to breed first females... get no good clutchs?
That's maybe 7 years to the first efforts..(possibly, I'm not on the inside of the desert projects)
So ten years is not that long when you might need to take 2-3 years to raise a stubborn feeder to size. Add in bad odds, bad clutches, missed seasons...
Ten years is about right to start saying "Where's the female deserts on clutchs of viable eggs?" It's not time to write off the entire morph, in my opinion.
