...so...I know one of the reasons I've heard cited before for breeding ball pythons is to reduce the stress on native populations, and on the animals that go through the importation process. Now, I am all for keeping and breeding snakes, but I've been wondering exactly how true those reasons are?
There are still new morphs being discovered and imported, which big breeders pay high prices for (and rightly so), but do you think the "industry" would be sustainable with only the morphs currently available? it seems that if importation was to stop all together, then there would EVENTUALLY be a decrease in the amount of people breeding for money, as there would be a fixed number of morphs, and one of the exciting and dynamic things about ball pythons is that there are still new morphs being discovered...so it almost seems that the industry depends on people catching wild snakes to sell to large exporters who probably pay those who catch them very little money, all in hopes of finding that new killer morph...just a thought that's been in my head and I wanted to get other people's opinions on the importation of ball pythons and other snakes for that matter...thanks for reading this!