Ok, don't think me an a$$, but I thought captive breeding programs have the intent on developing new color strains. I understand the "they don't occur in nature" statement, but other hobbies do it with favorable results.
Jack Wattley has done it with Discus, creating gorgeous healty extremely desireable fish like leopard skins, blue diamonds, etc.
Sandfire Dragon Ranch and others have bred incredible colors of bearded dragons like white, salmon, tangerine, etc.
All these animals are healthy and most are highly desireable. One breeder I know of has waiting lists for his leucistic dragons, so do others with colors.
I'm not arguing, just trying to understand. I have searched but only keep finding statements like "don't interbreed, it's not right". Why not? If the frogs produced are healthy and the only side effect is a new color pattern, what's the fuss. We are not releasing these frogs back into the wild, and in the wild they have fantastic colors occuring naturally anyway so who would care.
Please don't flame me, my flame suit is at the cleaners. I'm just discussing a curious question.