Originally Posted by JLC
What, exactly, are you looking for here, Mike? Answers? Solutions to a problem that many people don't perceive as a problem? Just someone to agree with you that there IS a problem?
The initial question in the thread title is "What will it mean to YOU?" Lots of us gave you the answer to that question. But you keep trying to bring it around so that everyone discusses the issue from the perspective of what it means to Mike Cavanaugh.
Yes....it IS certainly feasible that as the years continue to roll by, the more mainstream ball python market will have multi-gene animals that are difficult to say for certainty exactly which gene is there. Quite plausible.
So......?
Are we supposed to stop trying to breed multi-gene animals? How would you get people to do that?
Should breeders hold onto "mystery" animals until they've bred enough clutches to prove out every single possible gene?
Convince someone to foot the bill for genetic mapping of ball pythons and then have every morph tested and proven that way?
Or should breeders just be honest as they represent each animal for sale? Of course, maybe you can get a few more dollars IF you have 100% certainty of each of the "five" genes in one snake....so you drop your price some if you're not sure the pinstripe gene is being expressed or not. Is that such an evil scenario?
Will some breeders intentionally exaggerate the genes of their animals? Sure....but that's not exactly a new tactic and we should always be on guard for slimey sales tactics and outright scammers.
Each individual business already sets their OWN standards and procedures for guaranteeing health, sex, and the genetics of an animal. The questionable multi-gene animals just adds another wrinkle in that contract that they must establish between themselves and their customers. The better and more secure a customer feels in the contract they have with the breeder....the better that breeder's business will be. How YOU choose to make your customers feel secure in the genetics of the snakes you produce is up to you.
Couldn't have said it better myself. What it means to ME = non-issue. You said everything I wasn't able to accurately express.
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