Quote Originally Posted by motiszm View Post
I definitely lean more towards the purist view point when it comes to hybrids. I'm all for Line breeding to get interesting colors, so long as the animals stay strong and healthy, but I don't really understand the drive for producing hybrids. I like cornutas and caatingas better than their cranwelli hybrids. I guess I've been poisoned against hybridization though by seeing all of the ball python hybrid monstrosities.
Its generally frowned upon elsewhere in herpretoculture, but the DM Fantasy Frog was created to fill a need for frogs that had Cornuta features without Cornuta problems. I just recently got my first Fantasy Frog and its awesome. Fortunately we're starting to see more and more success with people breeding captive bred Cornuta babies, but seeing as to how the Fantasy Frog doesn't have health defects and deformities, why not keep it going.
I don't see the point in breeding these green apples, especially if they commonly have problems. Obviously it just doesn't work. If there aren't any problems keeping Caatingas, and Green Apples look so much like Caatingas, whats the point? Is it a hybrid just for the sake of a hybrid?
Personally I'd rather just have a nice Samurai Blue or a lime green albino Cranwell, at least I know its mouth wont fall off.

We should all start putting the word out on these defects, so that people hopefully stop making these frogs.