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[wombat]

"Slugs" are infertile eggs, nothing more miraculous.  No vertebrates giving birth to slimy inverts.

[wombat]

As for stories about the clientele so far:  When I left on Friday, my co-worker was still in the middle of a conversation with a customer that had already gone on for about half an hour, most of which had been about whether a particular frog was red or orange. 

Granted, there was a price difference between the two colors so I guess it mattered.  Don't ask me why there was a price difference - I assume the answer can only be about what the market will bear and the scarcity of the commodity or whatever, since all the frogs take exactly the same effort to produce.

[misterqueue]

If one color is a recessive trait and thus more genetically rare then it's not as easy to produce.

Plus have you ever tried to get two frogs to get it on?  I mean I had a little Italian Bistro set up with a Gerbil Violinist to serenade them and everything.  All they did was ribbit and hop away.

[wombat]

If one color is a recessive trait and thus more genetically rare then it's not as easy to produce.

Yeah, that might be why one is scarcer and more valuable. But as far as effort on our part it's all the same.

I am not sure yet what is going on with the genetics, though. I think most of the cases where we have different colors, they are not crossbreedings or anything like with the snakes.  I think they're all different wild subpopulations in the first place.  But I am not positive, as mostly so far I have been busy learning things like where we keep the fruit-fly medium and that there is nothing to listen to on 200 channels of satellite radio.