It seems to me that soon there will be no more pure super dwarf retics at all. Most breeders are more concerned with getting colors and morphs than they are with preserving the true SD's. I have not seen a true 100% SD available in quite some time. Sure there are quite a few on kingsnake but they are not SD's. If they are het for anything, or if they are any visual color morph, this was bred into them by breeding them to mainlands and dwarfs. They will still get as big as a dwarf. Maybe 15 ft or more depending on the breeding. There are no known color morphs of pure SD's as of yet so let's go ahead and ruin them..
Don't these people know that the only true SD blood left in the states is from whatever came in a few years ago? Collecting from those islands has stopped. There is no more importation of these snakes.
Why are people breeding out the tiny 5-7 ft SD?
I was considering selling my male because he is not tame, but I'm thinking that may be a bad move now. People need to breed to keep the species alive, not to make pretty colors. I feel it's wrong to advertise these as SD retics when they are clearly not pure. Someone will buy one after having done research on SD's and when the snake grows to more than 10 ft, they may no longer want it or be able to keep it.
Just a rant
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