Here's a head scratcher!

What a cool look! Can't wait for some out of the egg pictures

Lets see a pick of his mom

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subscribed!!! love the suprise stuff! Honestly, put me on record for saying clown.... The tear drops on the side and colors and what not, I really think you might have some het clowns, and which would mean the male albino is het clown. I'm just guessing, but I would probably put down $10 on it ;) how much longer do you think until he/she comes out? GOOD LUCK!!!

Calder

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Originally Posted by satomi325

I'm wondering if you wikied your entire post. It certainly looks like it.
While, you're not totally incorrect, you're not completely right either.

Bp morphs to Purebred dogs is apples to oranges. People are purposely selecting FOR those bad deleterious traits in dogs. It's not occurring randomly. (And for your information, you cannot breed son to mother in dog breeding. It is father to daughter. My boyfriend's mother breeds AKC champs. This is apparently part of "dog breeding ethics" because in the wild, many daughters would not leave the parent group or territory and breed with a father, compared to the son who does leave the group. )

But anyway.
Some morphs that have heritable issues, such as the spider wobble, don't get selected against and the reason why they're still here. (Same as those disastrous dog breeds)
However, breeders will always cull a deformed/kinked/fail to thrive snake. Many dog breeders do not cull their bad stock, which is why there are so many trainwreck dogs out there (ghetto backyard bred American bullys anyone?).

And BP inbreeding occurs often in the wild. Do you think snakes migrate to other locations to breed? No. They are a non-migratory species. Most reptiles are, which is why they are "so resilient to inbreeding". They're in the same general territory their entire lives and breeding with whatever snake around, aka most likely a close relative. The only differences is that the unfit are selected and taken out of the population. I'm not saying inbreeding is good or bad, it just makes the population have a higher homozygosity. Also why there are locale specific phenotypes. Sure, it can increase negative recessive genes. But it can also increase the positive. It just depends on the individual.
Think geographically and reproductively isolated species or island population dynamics.
Sometimes it negatively impacts populations (cheetahs), while sometimes it has no effect and even sometimes is positive (elephant seals or Humans in Iceland).
By being more homozygous, you are enhancing a population to be more fixated and having the same alleles. Bad or good.

I'm all in favor for outbreeding, don't get me wrong.
But to just say 'inbreeding *is* bad and health and wellness *always* go down' bla bla bla is a poor statement... There can be positive homozygousity in a species.

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Inbreeding in any animal species is NOT good. Reptiles are just as prone to the issues as are everything else. Nature does have ways to help curb inbreeding. Ball Pythons do move, they are not isolated to small local areas. Most hatchlings do not survive from any one clutch. They are caught for sale, die from starvation, die from defects or are eaten by other predators.
A pretty decent read on the issue is:
Introduction to conservation genetics By Richard Frankham, J. Jonathan D. Ballou, David David Anthony Briscoe
Genetic diversity is very important in all life forms, even plant life.

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Andy-:snake:

Whoa... that's neat! Go yell at it to hurry up outta that egg!

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that is crazy, subscribed to see them out of the egg.

Well what's the latest?

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If I saw the baby without knowing anything about the parents I'd say super enchi desert. But knowing the story.....what.....

Again. Posting to know what's up in the future.