Super cinnamons/black pastels?

[JodanOrNoDan]

Gosh that's heartbreaking. But I think that the harder part for me would be finding a good home for the poor little guys. Finding a good home for reptiles is TOUGH. I've rescued a few but the amount that get left behind is ridiculous.

Just to be clear, some of the deformities are severe enough that you will have to kill the animal. There will be no home finding for these individuals. Do not breed unless you are capable of doing what needs to be done.

[Giga]

I think you're making a good choice by choosing to avoid pairings that have a higher than usual chance of physical deformity. Yes, deformity can occur in any clutch, but when it occurs, for example in a normal clutch, you can think to yourself 'it's just one of those things'. If it was in a super cinny hatchling (for example), you'd be thinking in the back of your mind 'I caused this'. I think that would be the big difference from me, from an emotional standpoint - it's much easier to accept something when you feel as though there was nothing you could do to prevent it.

And besides, it all comes down to risk in the end and what level of risk you personally are willing to accept; the risk in a normal clutch is much lower, and that risk may be acceptable to OP, whereas the risk from a cinny x cinny pairing clearly isn't.

From an ethical perspective, I think it's wrong to do any pairing where the offspring have a significantly higher than normal chance of a health complaint, be it physical deformity, a neurological issue, or whatever else, so I think OP is doing the right thing

[tegu]

I think Giga said it very well. It would be hard see a deformity when I had intentionally increased the chances of the outcome. I may wait a few years if I want to breed anyway, just to prepare myself for it.

[Tzeentch]

I Hatched out a nice clutch of black pastel cinnamon"s a few weeks ago to get the all black 8 ball. I went though pages of stuff on the morph for weeks to try to get the best outcome before breeding. With all snakes you can have deformities like what was said above but from what I read, not doing the super helps a lot. I had 6 eggs and one has a very very small kink but everyone else was perfect . We got 2 pastel- black pastel- cinnamon's, 3 black pastel-cinnamon's and one pewter.

[Ba11er]

There are a lot of good arguments in this post for why not to produce super black pastel / cinnamon. I have to admit that they made me second guess the ethics and motives behind why I want to produce super black pastels. For me what ball python breeding comes down to is striving to creating a new morph and people enjoying the diversity of these animals.


I dont believe the people who have a passion for this go out to intentionally cause harm but genetics and selective breeding are a gamble, bad things happen. We know that super form of these animals have problems but regardless i am drawn to them. I see people ask from time to time " what morph should I buy " and the reply I often see is "go with what you like" , i like super black pastels because they are awesome looking animals. To the best of my ability I will try to produce healthy animals but I will fall short some of the time. I also breed rats to be feed to my snakes which some people find horrible but to the best of my ability I treat them humanly and with respect.

Everyone will have there own opinion on this subject but for those of us that like the supers we have to weight the pros and cons for ourselves and not be dissuaded by other people's opinions.

[kitn]

You can do a black pastel cinnamon and get an 8 ball. They're all black too and less risk. I discussed deformities with local breeders by me and they actually prefer the 8 ball. I'm going to try for that once mine get big enough

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[blk02ssmonte]

Here's what was posted in another thread about different morphs being lethal.

http://owalreptiles.com/issues.php

[voodoolamb]

From what I understand the sumas don't have the deformity issues of the black pastels and cinnamon supers.

When you add cinnamon to a suma you get that gorgeous all black snake.

That's the route I plan on taking to get a black ball python.

[Brandon Osborne]

There are a lot of good arguments in this post for why not to produce super black pastel / cinnamon. I have to admit that they made me second guess the ethics and motives behind why I want to produce super black pastels. For me what ball python breeding comes down to is striving to creating a new morph and people enjoying the diversity of these animals.


I dont believe the people who have a passion for this go out to intentionally cause harm but genetics and selective breeding are a gamble, bad things happen. We know that super form of these animals have problems but regardless i am drawn to them. I see people ask from time to time " what morph should I buy " and the reply I often see is "go with what you like" , i like super black pastels because they are awesome looking animals. To the best of my ability I will try to produce healthy animals but I will fall short some of the time. I also breed rats to be feed to my snakes which some people find horrible but to the best of my ability I treat them humanly and with respect.

Everyone will have there own opinion on this subject but for those of us that like the supers we have to weight the pros and cons for ourselves and not be dissuaded by other people's opinions.

This is the best response I've seen yet on this thread. No one wants to hatch babies that will have to be put down. You will see good and bad with all aspects of breeding snakes. If you want to hear about heartache, just ask anyone that has kept and bred a number of green tree pythons.....losing an entire clutch of beautiful babies because they absolutely refuse all attempts at getting them to bite and eat.

We do this out of passion. Sometimes passion gets the best of us. If you've been doing this for a long time, you will have had your fair share of negative results, even with things you never expected. The choice is always up to the keeper. Take a pass, or take a chance and produce animals like this.

[anthroterra]

Those are some of the most beautiful snakes I have ever seen!