Mutant questions?

[Locascio]

Whhoooaaa! This conversation just got heated! haha. I do beleive that genetic testing could always be a possibility, however genetic mutations occur in nature all the time. It may have turned out to be a once in a life time occurance for this particular mutation and that would explain why all of their frogs don't carry the gene. If one was to spend the money to genetically enhance frogs for one mutation, why not utilize those same standards for all of their frogs?

Thats what im saying money makes the world go round and seeing as how the exotic animal trade is a multi billion $ business WHY NOT Genetically alter animals for profit? could you amagen Genetically altering Dogs? some breeds would be worth 10-20k each because you knew what you wear buying would be pre determined. genetically, why not start with frogs? ask your self that

[Justin Bailey]

All I can say is that I myself and a couple people with deep pockets and big names in the herp industry attempted to create frogs that rivaled Nuance's, spending several hundred thousands of dollars in research on Cranwelli eggs and to no avail. Just look at the herp industry, the more the animals are line bred over several generations the more crazy things happen. That would also explain the smaller spawnings! There has to be several scientific papers scattered across the internet that support the idea of eventual sterility from mass produced linear generations. Oh yeah, Scaleless bearded dragons anyone??? lol!

[Justin Bailey]

"could you amagen Genetically altering Dogs?"


HAHA Locascio, I just re-read this post and I didn't catch this the first time! Ahh the images that just popped in my head gave me a pretty good chuckle haha, thanks for that

[Mentat]

Thats what im saying money makes the world go round and seeing as how the exotic animal trade is a multi billion $ business WHY NOT Genetically alter animals for profit? could you amagen Genetically altering Dogs? some breeds would be worth 10-20k each because you knew what you wear buying would be pre determined. genetically, why not start with frogs? ask your self that

Genetical alteration has been ongoing at least since the 1970's and probably even before that. I tasted a mango in a Nuclear Research Station in the mid 1970's called a Mango-Pinneaple and it tasted like the later. Someone had been messing around with mangos and had created many different trees.

It's well known that there are "improved" versions of corn and other vegetables in the U.S. Some of it can only be used for animal feed... but who really knows. Genetic Industry is already producing altered animals for sale and making money out of it: GloFish® Fluorescent Fish Home Page. I have already seen Glo Angelfish, other fish species, and even a GloCat. If you got the money a company in U.S. will clone your dead dog or cat. It's not going to be the same animal; but it will look like the same.

So $$ is driving all this like you state in your post. The issues involved are many and they are complicate. Ethics, legal, religious, scientific, moral... genetics open a pandora box the humans might loose control off. We barely can handle the fast paced digital age; messing around with "creativity" could backfire big time on the "unselect mass."

There are countries were marketing genetically altered organisms is against the law. In the U.S. and others it's allowed under certain controls. I don't like it myself; but can't do nothing; but observe and share my opinion. Sometimes watching a train wreck happen (specially after you warn them) can be amusing in a sort of sick way. We humans can be so crazy ! I'll stop here because this subject is never-ending and will run you around in circles forever... convenient to the genetic businessmen, he, he, he.

So we can expect Glo frogs and other genetically manipulated frogs too. Is there a "blue" gene that has been manipulated for decades into fish and later frog species? Only their developers know what and if so, they are not saying. A decade ago or so, an electric blue version of the Jack Dempsey revolutionized the cichild scene:
Photo from AquaSerene
They sold for more than 10X the cost of a regular JD and still command a high price. According to the hobbyist that discovered them, they were a natural color variation that he discovered among his batches. So why no one in decades of breeding had discovered the same? Did other breeders saw in their batches some fry that looked different and decided to cull them? Don't think so! The normal behavior would have been to separate the different ones and treat them like royalty. Interestingly, the production of EBJDs does not follow dominant/recessive gene play. And although there are babies available for sale; very few of those make it to adulthood since the majority die when they reach puberty. I myself have never believed this fish variation just happened "naturally."

OK, back to mutational Pacman frogs! If there are people willing to dish out $1-5K for one of these and you knew how to produce them... would you tell others? Would you not "stir the pot" with disinformation to maintain competitors off track and at the same time get public interest in your product? In a way we are doing that here right now .

So what I've gathered here is that mutants come from random Pacmans from Samurai Blue strain. Questions to further the discussion are: was the Mutant Blue parent a male or female; was the Blue parent imported straight from Japan or was it from a cross and with what; have you crossed the Blue parent with another Blue? Think I'll stop now and go make breakfast... food... yummy !