Hello folks,
All this talk of unreliability of what you are buying is worrisome as is
the potential direction of herpetoculture. Has anyone given any thought
to maintaining a stud book for geckos? I realize to a certain degree
that this is a large undertaking, but the GGA seems to be well
positioned to maybe help coordinate something like this. Maybe we could
start with a genus test case -- I nominate Phelsuma.
I would definitely be interested in acquiring a gecko whose lineage is
documented over one that "I got from a friend of a friend ..." Could
this be another step forward for gecko herpetoculture?
Yuri
> Magnus Forsberg wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was supposed to go on Christmas holliday, but I just have to comment
> on this.
>
> >I'm not aware of any Uroplatus hybrids, but there are some in
> Rhacodactylus. R. chaohoua has been crossed with R. >cilliatus. I
> think they look pretty cool.
>
> I do not know of any crossbred Uroplatus, but as you said in
> Rhacodactylus it exists and also between Phelsuma species.
> As I assume averybody on this list also knows about a few snakes
> that have been crossbred and are sold for high prices.
>
> I think the whole idea about crossbreeding species, and selling them
> for high prices is way out of line. It gets even
> moore serious when crossbred animales get into unexperiensed hands. We
> all know in wich direction the trade in
> animales are going. In a few years we will not be able to rely on
> wildcaught animales to get new bloodlines.Imagine
> a few years ahead, when you by for example R.chaohoua. How can you be
> sure thats what you get. What if these
> animales were crossbred a few generations back. If we start to
> crossbreed moore and moore species this hobby will
> soon be dead. Anyone thats interested in breeding reptiles should work
> for exactly the opposite. Keeping track of
> bloodlines and offspring, to ensure that people in the future will get
> a chance to by animales from healthy terrarium-
> populations.
>
> Merry Christmas to you all.
> Magnus
>
> Magnus
>
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