What happens to all these snakes?
I've watched many YouTube videos of people with extensive collections of ball pythons living in rack systems and talking about how they want to breed them. In the wild most of the hatchlings would never see adulthood, but in captivity, chances are most survive. These animals live for up to 30 years, sometimes more. So it begs the question, where are all these snakes going? Can there really be so many people that want to maintain such huge numbers of these reptiles?
I've even seen examples of people breeding retics and burmese, which seems like utter madness. I'm not saying that people shouldn't keep such animals. There are people on this forum whose opinions I respect that keep them and I deeply admire that skill and dedication. But those are very rare qualities. Which kind goes back to my point.
I sincerely hope that as a novice I'm missing something.
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