sunfish-exotics:

Now let’s talk a little bit about the quality of animals BHB is putting out in the world.

So if you’ve been on Morph Market lately you’ll notice that BHB has been flooding the leopard gecko section with new animals for sale. If you’re not into leopard geckos this may not bother you as much as it bothers me BUT! The geckos he is selling are.. really low quality as far as morph expression goes. He is also pricing them SUPER CHEAP. Which is likely to affect the market and make things harder for the rest of us trying to do things the right way.

First let’s look at a really popular morph, white and yellow! WY geckos are characterized by high white sides, bright coloration, reduced pattern on the tail particularly, and paradox spots (though not every WY will have them). 

Here’s one of BHB’s tangerine WYs on morph market right now (this is actually one of the nicer ones he has posted):

(source) Also note that he’s selling it for $60

And here are a few leopard geckos of the same morph (tangerine white and yellow) that are actual quality examples of the morph.

(source) Price: $250

(source) Price: $250

$250 is a very fair price for a tangerine WY. I feel like there are issues down the road if your average leopard gecko owner wants a WY and sees one for $60 vs one for $250. The REAL issue comes in when potential leopard gecko breeders buy one of BHB’s animals expecting it to be a breeder quality animal, when they definitely are not. (You also have to keep in mind that brian is notorious for not keeping track of genetics in his other reptile species, and for leopard geckos he’s not keeping the females separated so how is he tracking who lays what? Knowing the accurate genetic lineage of the animal is crucial when you want to breed them). When those folks start breeding bhb quality animals they’re going to be stuck with animals no one wants (because lets face it, the only reason bhb’s leopard geckos sell is because of the name attached to them). I want to see LESS low quality leopard geckos around, not more.

Okay let’s look at a different morph. A mack snow “bold stripe” (bold stripe in quotes because brian clearly has no idea bold stripe is.)

(source) Priced at $125 (which isn’t a bad price for an ACTUAL bold stripe, which this is not)

And here’s what a real bold stripe snow looks like:

(source) Priced at $300

I could do this for every morph he has for sale right now, but this post is getting long and I am getting tired. I hope this helps illustrate how frustrating bhb is on so many different levels.