I agree with Kamakiri on this one, and a good thing too, since my old one has been serving me well for many years and I don't want to change it.
When Villosa offered wild-caught ooths for sale, he wasn't scamming anyone. There has been more than enough information on this thread for anyone to know the risk. He promised to replace any ooth that didn't hatch, but it is obvious that by having one dead ooth replaced by another is not much of a "guarantee."
When you buy stock from your broker who promises that it is "seriously undervalued" and the company folds two weeks later, you don't go around saying that your broker is a scammer, though he might be; you know that you were gambling and this time you lost. I am quite sure that there were experienced breeders who knew that the odds were against them but bought one or two anyway, "just on the off chance." It is not a coincidence, though, that sellers of these ooths never offer nymphs from the ooths that they have hatched themselves.
I am amused to see that the most vituperative critics of the practice of buying WC ooths are those who breed the species themselves. What a coincidence! To extend that, though, to a celebration of a member like ArkBlue being scammed shows a degree of contumely that says more about the speaker than the object of such remarks. It also has the unfortunate effect of discouraging others who either bought an infertile ooth or were outright scammed with a fake one from reporting the fact in this forum. Well done, ArkBlue.
To hold the admins responsible for such sales/dealers is too ridiculous to bear discussion except to point out that Frey was recently deemed a scammer with hands of the wrong sex before his/her fertile ooths arrived in the U.S.
If I had bought a WC ooth, it would still be sitting quietly in its hatching chamber, but no, I had to get some ooths from Hibiscusmile and now I have to go and put a bunch of tiny boxer nymphs into their new home, and set up more ff pots. Work, work, grumble, grumble.
