To my knowledge no one ever decided to call them True Mosaics, I think one person mentioned it and someone ( Babydevilsangel) responed with:
"We already do call them TRUE platinums. Doesn't fix the confusion. If we have to ask.. "A platinum mosaic? Or a true Platinum?" there is confusion".
http://www.glidercentral.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/798190/3Read through some of the post on this page. People never were in an agreement of calling anything True Platinum's, its was just how people were trying to explain the differences in what we were all talking about with genetics at that time. It was even brought up by Misty in a post on this page about what if we end up with a Mosaic that actually has Platinum in its lineage, because at the time all this was being discussed No One knew of any "real or true" Mosaics that existed.
Here is what Misty posted:
I know that it seems like a no-brainer to some of you who've been into sugar gliders for a long time, but I'm hearing that it's really confusing to the newbies.
In the case of the person Elisabeth was talking about, she really believes her platinum mosaic can create a Haley baby. We know that it's possible for a colored glider to pop up unexpectedly from a pairing, not realizing that a glider 10 generations ago in the parents' lineage was carrying the gene. So if this lady thought "Wow, that's so cool that platinum just showed up in this line of mosaics" and had no idea that the word "platinum" might be used differently, then she wouldn't have known to ask the breeder otherwise & the breeder wouldn't have known to educate her. That poor lady is might be left feeling like she was falsely advertised to.
Just to play Devil's advocate a little... What would we do if someone started breeding true platinums with the mosaic lines, eventually leading to true platinum mosaics? Wouldn't having "true platinum mosaics" and "platinum mosaics" be even more confusing? It's not that far-fetched that this could start happening within the next few years. What will we do then?
I think for the sake of MY customers, if I end up with a platinum mosaic, I will be calling it a mosaic with silver or platinum coloring. I don't want to be responsible for unknowingly misinforming someone. White mosaics tend to have white faces, right? Does that mean we should call them white-faced mosaics? No. It would be confusing & misleading.
I'm really not trying to argue. I think this is a good debate that we have going. And I just want to make a case for the people who don't know any better & don't know there's a difference in the way platinum is being used. I don't think we should just say they should know better & leave it at that. Yes I agree people buying colored gliders should get educated about it, which is exactly why I started this topic in the first place...because I wanted to make sure I was understanding it all correctly. And since I started it, I've heard more & more people saying they're confused about it too. So like I said, I'm going to respond by changing how I word the mosaic descriptions for the sake of my customers & not wanting to confuse or mislead them. I can't make anyone else do it too, but I do hope you'll all consider it.
EDIT: Sheila, I haven't talked to Priscilla at all. I've been really busy this last week & 1/2.
Misty
Now we have someone in the glider community with an actual Platinum Mosaic Glider, which means there will be more to follow and now would be a good time to discuss all of this again and work on a change that would be a great understanding of the differences between genetic names and descriptive names. As I stated above Breeders will have to come up with something different to distinguish the differences between a True Platinum Mosaic and just a colored Platinum Mosaic (Sliver Plat). Which the easiest way for that would be call them Silver Mosaic all confusion solved. Just my opinion and thoughts. Then you only have:
A) Platinum (meaning a glider is Platinum and can reproduce the Platinum Gene)
B) Sliver Mosaic (Meaning the glider is a Mosaic with silver coloring only, it cannot pass on a Platinum gene)
C) Platinum Mosaic (Meaning the glider is a Mosaic and can reproduce the Platinum Gene)