jetajockey
come get me tang police!
Honestly man, no disrespect but I think it's kinda shortsighted to assume that if a new strain comes out that 'we' would've heard about it. Breeders have no obligation to hobbyists, and some strains are kept under wraps until they have a large breeding stock, then they open the floodgates to the importers and it starts popping up on wholesaler lists everywhere. It makes sense to do this with some strains because you'd want to flood the market with your own product before anyone else has time to compete.True, but you have to think/know we would have heard about it first. Either from the Germans (where most new strains are cultivated) or from southeast Asians (where the rest are cultivated/many are found)
And I just meant many uninformed LFSes would just accept what a 'knowledgable' supplier tells/sells them.
My LFS tries selling the few RCS they get in as bumblebee shrimp. They give the scientific name of a saltwater fish. So that's what I'm taking about.
Then again, it takes nothing but creativity to name a new strain they could have gotten in a 'redder than normal' group of amanos and decided that they should be called as such. Or it could be a new strain all together.
Like I said earlier, it's good to be skeptical about new strains, especially when LFS like to rename things, but the wholesaler lists that I've waded through and ordered from are fairly accurate. So I agree with the skepticism but I personally don't like calling people scammers unless there is actual evidence of it.
Not to divert, but what makes you think that most of the new fish/invert strains are cultivated in germany?