Bump due to seeing too many basti adds either selling or wanting to buy and selectively breed like color morphs to like color morphs from polymorphic areas.

This is fantastic. Thank you for all the info Rich.

Everyone is quite welcome.
I'm hoping to add to the thread with some other morph info, and add to the already mentioned morphs before too long.


Rich

Bump again for those thinking of breeding all blue escudos to all blue, goldust bastis to only goldust, the reddest this or the yellowest that.
Remember, breeding for selective traits can be almost as bad as hybridizing.

Exactly!
Well said Rich.

So, my mancreeks from Kevin Moser... have they yet had a definite locale attributed to them, or just a possible locale?

What does Kevin say?

Some excellent information here Rich. Thanks for putting this down for all to see how important acurate locale info is.

Keep up the good work - as always!

Regards
Marcus

Thanks Rich. I sent you a PM with some specific questions, but in general how are the "farms" operated by the importers operated? Is this just a term for legal wild caught or do they actually have breeding groups set up and sell the offspring? Also, how reliable is the locale data for these types of imports? As I understand it, there are only a few permitted "farms" from which frogs are imported to the U.S. If I have this all wrong, I'm happy to be corrected. I'm really trying to do the right thing and absolutely don't want to contribute to the confusion.

There are no farms. They are simply picked up and shipped.