It always amazes me the amount of really stupid people on this site - like - er....um....Ed for example. No you cannot tell the father from mtDNA but you can do genomic DNA. It tests both sides mother and father. And if you do a relatedness score between shed samples and it comes out 10% relatedness or less it indicates impurity. No - I do not have a Biology Degree, but why is it you people seem to think a person with a biology degree is the ONLY person qualified to be an expert at anything? It is because you are a bunch of uneducated simpletons with no biology degree! I happen to have 2 Assoc. degrees, a BA, a BS and a Masters and am currently working on my PhD in Law. I also have 18 hours of Masters level biology which allows me to teach biology at a Junior College level. I'm also not interested in looking better for libtards like you Vithaxton! And aren't you just the jet setting little wanna-be. I hope you're successful, but I've seen and done more in my life then most of the people on this post - Little Mikey Fezden for example who claims leucistic alterna are pure but has NEVER collected one. Or Ed, how many have you collected? None I bet. Most of you are too broke, too stuck in a 40 hour a week dead end job, with a fat wife and a couple of snot nosed kids and probably living in a house you can just barely afford with sheets over the windows cause you cannot afford mini blinds and curtains - and if you even get to go reptile collecting somewhere other then your back yard, it might be for a week if your wife LETS you go. I do not have those issues cause I have had my own business since 1990 and go to work in my home whenever I want to. I have a house in Del Rio, Dallas and Mexico and Val Verde County is in my back yard. I got Indigos under my house in both Del Rio and in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Alterna within a ten minute drive from my front door. I collect 180 plus nights a year and spend several months in Mexico collecting on a permit as well. My wife - who is 18 years younger then me - also collects reptiles and has Mexico permits. If I never sold another reptile, I'd still have a better life then any of you wanna-bes on the post. And so WHO has collected 1027 alterna and hatches 300 a year? Post the name or shut up Snakesatsunset - you are a liar. Also, I never claimed to be first in anything - only the number I've collected so far and I'm already sitting on 250 alterna eggs with about 32 females to go, so suck it up buttercup. I cannot even breed all of the alterna I have in my collection because if I did, I could not get rid of all of them. And all of mine go to Germany every year. And if you post it is John Hollister - well if you believe that I got a xanthic silver patternless pibald alterna for you pal! I'm not claiming anything is a FACT, but my opinion after collecting more alterna then anyone known(post the name) - is that they are hybrids. They came from "generic" parents cause Mikey said so, so there is NO basis in fact that they are pure alterna. Also the genomic testing and relatedness would prove it ED, so you are not the savior of my desire to test them that you think you are. SEND ME A SHED and I'll include sheds from several wild collected alterna from my collection and we will see. As I said - crow is best served cold and I'll eat plenty if they prove out to be pure. They will not because none of these reptile hacksters will EVER send me a shed.
HER name is Reinalda Rubio. You dont know of her? Good....she doesnt care. According to her, in Mexico you cannot collect and take with you. Post your export permits for the ones you collected in Mexico.
