Introducing Caatanga X Ornata

[Kevin1]

Phillipe de Vosjoli also advocates for hybridization among Rhacodactylus geckos, and probably any other abomination that seems commercially lucrative.

If your referring to leachies, It's locality and subspecies crossing he advocates.
From what I understand the Leachianus henkeli subspecies status has been dropped and therefore not really advocating hybridization at all. The only reason he does advocate crossing localities is because of the limited numbers of specimens exported. Claiming to be knowledgeable on population genetics, I would think you would understand the reasoning behind it.
In your post earlier you said something about using hormone treatments to flood the market with weak froglets. You should know when they first bred joazeirensis they did it without hormones. Please don't take any offense to this Tony.

[Kevin1]

I'd also like to inform the forum, in case you guys didn't hear, that Phillipe and Robert's team have the caatinga horned frog C. joazeirensis. While Kim has true C. Auritas and has had them for a long time. Never offered any for sale due to them growing to a smaller size than expected. Also that Phillipe and Robert have teamed up to try and figure out the "situation" with these new frog species. I heard this straight from the herpetocultural man himself(and his team). I haven't heard anything new on the subject in awhile. I hope that helps clear up any confusion. Some of you that frequent other frog forums might already be aware of this.

[Tony]

If your referring to leachies, It's locality and subspecies crossing he advocates.

He just published an article in the Reptiles annual advocating mixed Rhac vivs along with crossing ciliatus x chahouha and ciliatus x sarasinorum.

From what I understand the Leachianus henkeli subspecies status has been dropped and therefore not really advocating hybridization at all. The only reason he does advocate crossing localities is because of the limited numbers of specimens exported.

Crossing localities is hybridization if they are reproductively isolated populations in nature.

Claiming to be knowledgeable on population genetics, I would think you would understand the reasoning behind it.

A founding population of 20 individuals will capture about 97.5% of a populations genetic diversity and can be managed without fresh blood for quite some time.

In your post earlier you said something about using hormone treatments to flood the market with weak froglets. You should know when they first bred joazeirensis they did it without hormones. Please don't take any offense to this Tony.

I was not aware that C. joazeirensis was here until this thread, but the problems with hormone-bred cranwelli are no secret.