So was your edit an attempt at an apology?
I actually do know what I am talking about, and I have a far better than a basic gene understanding.
I stated that "
A friend of mine bought a male Albino Darwin from a well known breeder and he bred it to one of his normal Darwin females to get some diversity in his albinos" He infact did. He bred it to more than one female in the same season including a normal Darwin female from non related bloodlines to the ones he had in his current albinos.
I then stated "
The offspring were nothing more that Darwin crosses and so obviously the Albino wasnt pure Darwin as it was sold as" So I will explain this as maybe you lack understanding of hets maybe? A het from a normal Darwin to an Albino will look exactly the same as a normal Darwin. The hets he got looked like coastal x Darwin or something like that. Thus showing the Albino was not pure Darwin.
I then stated that he
"had to sell off the Albino offspring from his Albino females in bulk to a pet shop as albino carpets and not Darwins." Now that seems pretty easy to understand. As he had bred the male albino to albino females he had to sell them off as not pure Darwins, and to a pet shop as he dosent keep mix carpets and he was not going to put his name to these albino offspring.
Not too difficult to understand, but in your haste to try and discredit what I had written you failed to read it correctly.
I dont mind when someone makes a mistake, we all do, but I do expect them to apologise, especially when they have tried to muddy someone elses reputation on a public forum.
I wrote the intial post on a blackberry so it might have been a little hard to read, so I will write it again.
Unfortunatly there are far too many breeders selling off Jungle Jag sibs as pure Jungles and Jag sibs as pure coastals. It has got to the point now that we will not buy carpets off anyone that breeds Jags, as we cannot be sure they are infact pure.
There may well be honest breeders who do keep correct records and give full disclosure to sibs they sell, but we wont risk it. If I see someone, even who is a well known breeder, selling a jungle that they say is "Pure" and they also breed Jags, we will not buy from them. Maybe I might buy from a friend where I know his animals and their history, maybe.
And it now isnt only Jag sibs, it is albinos as well that is an issue. There has been a move to get Jag albinos, why I dont know, and some of the albino jag sibs (albinos that are not jags but were bred to albino jags or het Jags) have been passed off as pure albino Darwins, and its not until they are crossed with normal Darwins where it is found out.
This type of dishonest practices is really damaging our hobby. Now obviously this will upset the Jag breeders, such as the one who attacked my original post, but it needs to be said.
For people like myself who value pure animals, it makes us more fussy and picky over who we will or wont buy carpets from.
This post makes no sense at all! You have no idea what you are talking about... Anybody that has basic gene understanding knows that breeding albino to a normal produces 100% hets (all wild type looking but all carry 1 mutated gene)! But yet you say "your mate" bred his male albino to his "normal" female and created albino offspring that he had to sell to a pet store cause they weren't pure??? Hmmm something doesn't fit right here...
Edit.... You jump from jags to albino male to normal females then to albino female...