WC Gravids?

[janeothejungle]

I am not going to get wrapped up in this thread as we have already posted facts not opinions about this subject, but the above quote is about as far from the truth as you can get.

Noah is the ONLY African breeding ball morphs for the morph market. He has freedom breeder racks set up with animals we can only dream about.

The rest of the morphs that are exported are wild caught or c.h from the bush. We deal with 2-3 different importers who have been /go to Africa and meet the trappers and collectors to make their export connections. Any one who has been there or knows facts about the African market will tell you the same. Morphs are generally collected in locality areas, the mutant gene shows up in a area and the animals do not travel far like other species like boas do, so they breed among themselves, once this locality are of morphs is found that is where the collectors collect those morphs. Lavender albinos have all been collected in one small area/locality in Benin , pieds from Ghana , albino's, yellow bellies, ghost, etc are all collected in certain areas/ locality pockets in that country. They are not selectively bred by the Africans, they are bred by nature.

This is not our opinion that we are stating, but actual fact.

BS. Actual fact? You have a straight face when you write that? Cite me one piece of firsthand literature from a party not profiting from importation. You can't. The only available lit is by Gorzula and I'd be happy to shred his "scientific" opinion piece by piece if you'd like. It's not science. And there is an area of Benin where lavender albinos are just hanging out in the bush? Riiiiiiight. No again. The gene pool for that morph originates in that area, no doubt. I'll even grant you that on special occasions a baby with an odd pheno is found in the wild before being shredded by predators that would naturally pick it off. But the animals imported here have been artificially selected for our markets. The way you guys (and here I refer to those of you who profit so industriously from importation) tell it, Africa is just covered with great varying phenotypes slithering around the bush, just waiting to be discovered. A multitude of pattern and form for the taking. Have you even been to Africa yourself? You defend your business based on the profit it makes you and the stories you hear from 2nd and 3rd party sources. I've spent time over there doing fieldwork and I think you would be surprised at the origins of the industry you defend so hotly.

~Kat