Friends,
Wow ! What a great thread. I go to bed early and missed all the fun. The moment is probably gone.

Actually, the best part is we can have this conversation without throwing things at each other.
I’ll take care of that when I see Ed this weekend.
How about you , Uncle Billy, why don’t you try to make the drive to White Plains this weekend----I can hit you over the head with my purse.

My thoughts.........not my practice.........are all over the place with this, mostly because I have a good imagination and not a genetics degree.

Seriously, I stay on the same side of the fence as Ed and Bill…. never mix species, morphs of the same species and even go so far as not to put pairs together that came from the same parents so to produce “healthy offspring” . ( ie like father and daughter ) I feel like it’s my responsibility. I look at it as black and white. As a 'rule'.

I’m surprised that no one has started a business in the dart trade utilizing some kind of a swap thing as it would help the overall genetic diversity of each species.

I’m sure ‘inbreeding” and poor husbandry goes hand and hand as well ? ( ie over breeding and a diet of nothing but FF !) Both situations, we know, can cause tons of problems with the frogs we keep and on the reproduction of healthy off spring. This is just as big a responsibility. Like anything else, sadly, some people just don’t care. Oh boy ! I'll stop there as I'm sure I'm walking on thin ice.

I always wonder?
I've not been on trips to view darts in the wild…but are we even reproducing frogs with the same exact clutch sizes, colors, and body size of the WC? And do they - ever- interbreed in the wild?

WE CAN’T keep taking them from the wild ….that a scary thought and a whole separate topic.
So now what ?