Controversial Topic but I am curious

Im not against hybrids if (again) they were "kept on a short leash". I personally would own a hybrid just to have one in my collection, not to breed. I think some hybrids are awesome lookin animals, and a friend of mine has one in his collection. Its my favorite snake of all of his animals. Its a blood/ball and she is super kewl lookin.

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

Im not against hybrids if (again) they were "kept on a short leash".

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Agreed. But we're dealing with human being and if there is a dollar sign attached, there's no way to control this. They'll get sold, given up, and end up in someone's collection where the uniqueness will be bred once again. Personally against hybrids as we're forcing something that (I am guessing) rarely occurs in their natural habitat.

Hybrids are awesome, but MUCH responsibility is required when crossing breeds. I personally would love to have a SUPERBALL (blood X ball python)

Finally found my password. I am really glad there were more posts. Gives me lots to think about.

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http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/hybrids/

Same as everyone else said, the risk of having someone unknowing breed them as pure animals is scary so it should only only be done very very carefully. I am not against them by any means, but I won't be breeding any myself. I do think having a superball or burmball would be cool as a pet only.

Hybrids do occur in the wild, it's an important part of the natural process of evolving new species. Personally I'm not a big fan of it in captiviy myself, unless there's a good reason like something is about to go extinct (preserving genetic variation among galapagos tortoise subspecies comes to mind). But if you want to see people get really crazy, bring up hybrids in a dart frog forum. ;)

The only hybrid i really like is the burm balls think they look super cool and it makes you wonder how the heck that happened a little bp breeding with a huge burm
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I am hoping to breed my woma to a female ball sometime to produce some walls. They are stunning.

I had no idea there were burm balls! I have no idea how that happens lolz. I also do love the way the walls look. I love Woma pythons so much. I wish they were more readily available and less expensive, they are so gentle.