TylototritonGuy
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Hello to everyone,
Thought I would post this up as it's something I'm very passionate about and hopefully I could get some interest. There has been a sudden boom in the United Kingdom in the keeping of Tylototriton species, which in my opinion everyone should love them cos they are fantastic!
Anyway, there is a huge place appeared in the market for them as slowly people are getting more interested in the Genus. However, I do feel as though there should be some sort of controlled breeding and recording/studding/document of all the breeding and even keepers (Not just breeding) that is and will be happening from the Past, Present and the Future.
What I am suggesting is that all breeding heavily monitored and who they are sold to is too (even if it is all in confidence and not shared openly. And if someone doesnt want to tell them their names, they can use an alias).
So, I was going to propose that maybe a Document is drafted based on everyone's Tylototriton of where they are from, who they belong to, previous owners, Offspring, Who the offspring were sold to, Previous owners of the offspring and so on and so forth! And basically every-time an individual is sold on to a new owner, its recorded and the document on those individuals passed onto the next owner too and if those individuals have offspring, its recorded and new documents are made for the offspring too that survive and make it into Adulthood with their bloodline history on it.
Its sort of like documents provided for tortoises (sort of but not exactly). These are the following species I propose to keep documents of to monitor their breeding and trade:
Let me know what you think, I know it's not something that can be done over night or that everyone in the UK might be interested in or that some people might not be interested in breeding them, but I think it might be good to have this little system or whatever you call it introduced to make sure we don't screw up blood lines and genes with inbreeding, even if we dont mean to do that!
Let me know what you all think, I have an idea I'm toying with about the Document/certificate thing and what it would look like but it would be good to hear what you make of this entire thing as a whole!
Thank you for reading, Hope you all understand what I'm rabbiting about lol.
TyloDude
P.S If you are a keeper in the UK with Tylototriton, why not join the UK Tylototriton Keepers group by clicking Here
Thought I would post this up as it's something I'm very passionate about and hopefully I could get some interest. There has been a sudden boom in the United Kingdom in the keeping of Tylototriton species, which in my opinion everyone should love them cos they are fantastic!
Anyway, there is a huge place appeared in the market for them as slowly people are getting more interested in the Genus. However, I do feel as though there should be some sort of controlled breeding and recording/studding/document of all the breeding and even keepers (Not just breeding) that is and will be happening from the Past, Present and the Future.
What I am suggesting is that all breeding heavily monitored and who they are sold to is too (even if it is all in confidence and not shared openly. And if someone doesnt want to tell them their names, they can use an alias).
So, I was going to propose that maybe a Document is drafted based on everyone's Tylototriton of where they are from, who they belong to, previous owners, Offspring, Who the offspring were sold to, Previous owners of the offspring and so on and so forth! And basically every-time an individual is sold on to a new owner, its recorded and the document on those individuals passed onto the next owner too and if those individuals have offspring, its recorded and new documents are made for the offspring too that survive and make it into Adulthood with their bloodline history on it.
Its sort of like documents provided for tortoises (sort of but not exactly). These are the following species I propose to keep documents of to monitor their breeding and trade:
- Mandarin Crocodile Newts (Tylototriton shanjing)
- Guizhou (Kweichow) Crocodile Newts (Tylototriton kweichowensis)
- Guizhou (Kweichow) Crocodile Newts (Tylototriton.cf.kweichowensis) I hate calling it a CF species but for arguments sake.
- Taliang Knobby Newt (Tylototriton taliangensis)
- Wenxian Knobby Newt (Tylototriton wenxianensis)
- Himalayan Crocodile Newt (Tylototriton verrucosus)
- Black Knobby Newt (Tylototriton asperrimus)
- Hainan Knobby Newt (Tylototriton hainanensis)
- Vietnamese Crocodile Newt (Tylototriton vietnamensis)
- Vibrantly-Spotted Newt (Tylototriton notialis)
Let me know what you think, I know it's not something that can be done over night or that everyone in the UK might be interested in or that some people might not be interested in breeding them, but I think it might be good to have this little system or whatever you call it introduced to make sure we don't screw up blood lines and genes with inbreeding, even if we dont mean to do that!
Let me know what you all think, I have an idea I'm toying with about the Document/certificate thing and what it would look like but it would be good to hear what you make of this entire thing as a whole!
Thank you for reading, Hope you all understand what I'm rabbiting about lol.
TyloDude
P.S If you are a keeper in the UK with Tylototriton, why not join the UK Tylototriton Keepers group by clicking Here
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