My .02 cents
KNOBTAIL said:
an assistant DA attempting to explain morphs to a jury! I dont think so. Thats a lost cause. It can easily be construed as bad luck on a first batch.
That is the whole purpose of an expert witness.
Now to something else I still cannot figure out. How he did it.
From what I have read he was fairly new in the rep biz, gained a following through Fauna that apparently went to bat for him when someone said hey this is fishy.
Now this guy is caught, but does any one know for sure how he was able to pull this off. If he could do it can someone else do it as well? There is alot of smart people that are heavily involved on fauna and can spot scams really quick. Is there any info that can be compiled to help spot scammers like this.
This is the way I see it, and I am going to use myself for example. I have been buying burms to breed, I now have a male albino green from siegel, a female albino burm from Mrs. Ambrose and a normal female who I have no clue who the original breeder was. We are planning on buying more in Daytona and getting a granite and some normal females. Now what am I supposed to do with the hets. I am new at this, my customers who come in the shop will know what I have. But how am I going to be able to prove this to the online community. I am sitting here wondering if I am going to get listed with this knucklehead that started all this. All it will take is one het not to prove out first breeding.
Right now I will buy a het from Siegel, NERD, Bill & Amy etc. but John Doe from Dixville TN will not have a chance. Why? Because of this whole TSE scam, I don't want to fall victim to something like this. This will stink up the reptile community for years to come and make it harder for honest beginners to "break" into the morph game.
Well this is my opinion, I don't think I am the only one who is aware of this not wondering the same thing