I've been looking around at all sorts of smaller snakes, but my favourite would be a blood python. My space requirements don't allow for that. In the time it takes me to save up (hopefully by the end of the summer), would someone be able to breed me a dwarf blood python? I need it to be just as affordable as any normal blood.

In a more serious manner, I would like to ask what goes into the breeding of dwarf species. I know dog breeds have been bred for certain sizes before (like the pomeranian which used to be larger than it is today). Of course it's probably different for reptiles. Or maybe it's altogether different; is there a difference comparing hereditary predisposition to size and breeding toward that tendency, and what is referred to as species dwarfism? If it's possible to breed for, is it at all predictable or is it due to chance encounters with mutation?