This is the type ignorance in the hobby that is responsible for the lack of growth in the hobby...honestly. Let me take the time to break down this foolishness if I can.
Well that's what creating a lineage is doing, your advertising them to be something they're not.
He labeled them as festae, are they not?
People basically give them a name to hype them up or make them seem rare but essentially it's the same as the original fish.
Wrong. The reason a name is given is to set their own fish apart from what's currently being sold in the hobby. Nothing wrong with that. Same reason why ppl give names at all, basically. Where do you get rare from?
I'm not questioning the quality of his fish. Like previously stated describing them as super red or so forth is a characteristic discription that can be attached to a name since it's easy to distinguish.
Once folks catch on to the lineage name after a while no one will question it. That's how things get started with bloodlines and lineages. Soon the hobby will know exactly what Imperial Line festae are and who they came from.
When you say a lineage no one knows what it means to be of that lineage outside of a small community.
This will change with time.. The quality of his fish and the name will answer that soon enough. So what's your point?
Most of the people who clicked on this post probably didn't know what imperial line means so I'd say yes that causes confusion as to what it means to just find out that's a self made name.
Again........
Do you know how many slight variations there are in severums with barring, color and finage? If someone were to create a lineage for each one, the name there would probably have a thousand different name variations for severum so we stick to basic characteristic classification or location.
First I doubt there's really that many variations of Severums, at least not in hobby. Sure there's s few like you said that have minor differences here and there but it's hardly enough to create confusion especially if people know the locations already... Secondly this statement doesn't apply to the thread as there's really only 2 known locations for festae as of today. If someone out there were to decide to create an exceptional line of Severums and chooses a name of his liking what's to stop him? What's the problem? Why hold back progress and change? The difference is really in the quality and genetics of the fish being shown...
Look it's fine if you're ok with receiving f4788432s festae as long as they tell you they came from Ecuador or Peru and were bred in some bat from 5th generation sibling pairs or whatever the case is. There's a clear differences in quality here and that's really all that matters, people who don't want to remain blind and in the dark as far were their fish came from deserve know their bloodline. The end.
