Originally Posted by Tosha_Mc
My major problem is that these animals get over here - they are completely misrepresented and sold as ghosts, desert ghosts, axanthics, etc. when their coloration is most likely due to being gravid - and then the "oddballs" that are hatched are almost as likely a result of stress on either mom or the egg and are not in fact genetic. How few of these oddballs actually prove out?
Anyway - it's economics for a poor country - and if we didn't buy them as pets they would end up as food.If the wild populations die out - there are plenty of unwanted normals in the US we can send back for re population.
Whoa whoa whoa. Are you saying stress changes the coloring of the mother and the eggs? Sounds like PURE speculation, and a bit ridiculous.
From what I've seen most imports have a little bit of a different look to them, but thats because they are breeding out in the wild and the captive ones are being selectivly bred. Overall it leads to subtle differences.
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