No disrespect taken
. I love a discussion.
About Germany; I read A LOT and many of the hobbyists/breeders in Germany buy up much of the stock of newly discovered species because a lot of scientists from Germany go research in Asia.
A good example is the Microcrab which is a freshwater species found in Thailand. Discovered there, German breeders/hobbyists brought it in in an attempt to breed it but failed, so there is a lot of German literature on it.
There are a lot of new strains that come out of germany, but my point was that you made germany seem like 'the place' for new fish strains when it's really asia that it is happening in. Asia is where a huge amount of fish farms and strain developing happens, so to make it seem like they just sit in the shadow of what germany does is highly inaccurate.
Hey you make a great point about it being shortsighted, but as part of my schooling has dealt in marketing, I know a business would try to hype up interest in the stock.
I'm glad your schooling on marketing has lead you down that path, I have experience in marketing also, and I am just speaking on what I have seen happen in this hobby in the past.
Obviously it would differ a little in the fish world, but I have to find it hard to believe the very first place any of us (the 'we') would hear about a new stock is in THAT LFS, which I know mislabeled stock in the past. <- that fact was a large part of my assumption.
I agree, it's doubtful we'd hear about a new strain from some random LFS that doesn't know half of the stock list, and I've already said that skepticism is the best route in this.
However I think it's just as bad to respond with saying its 'not possible'. Fish strain developers don't send out a bulletin to hobbyists letting them know when new stuff pops up. And the wholesale importer lists are where these new strains are going to pop up, so it's not a stretch to think that they might have something odd listed that the LFS has access to and the common hobbyist does not.
Some wholesalers mislabel certain fish and inverts also, it happens. With questionable strains I recommend calling (if possible) the wholesaler and asking for actual photos of the stock and getting some person to person information on it before ordering it.
But anyhow, we can disagree about where new strains come from till we are blue in the face, my biggest concern is the attitude towards the LFS in question. I don't know of what they've done other than mislabel some of their stock.
I know we haven't named names on this place, but if it was my LFS I would be pretty upset for anyone to even make that assumption. Ignorance is one thing, deceitful business practices are another.
