Quote Originally Posted by ev477 View Post
I'm starting to disagree with the idea of continuing to produce scaleless snakes. I am not saying it is cruel to own a scaleless snake, but if people keep inbreeding the same lines of scaleless snakes, certain negative traits may come out that are undesirable.

If the snake seems healthy, if it eats, sheds, poops, there's no reason to believe it's unhealthy. I'm not disagreeing with anyone about whether it's cruel to keep a different creature. This is not about being accepting of diversity though, it is about selectively reproducing the trait.

If people breed for this trait continually, there may be some genetic deficiencies that arise from this inbreeding. Some breeders might be more interested in the money than the well being of future generations of snakes. I'm not saying that all breeders only care about only money. Spiders are known to have head wobbles. This could be because of this type of inbreeding to keep the trait, but I'm really not going to say that I know how it works. What I'm going to say is that if a degree of care isn't taken in the delicate process of introducing the scaleless morph, the money will overrule the well being of the snakes and every local pet shop may be trying to sell scaleless snakes that don't know how to balance.
How is it any different from any other morph, which is a mutation as well? How do you know they aren't outbreeding the scaleless to make het for scaleless and breeding those back?