rather than start a million threads with all my various breeding questions i thought it would be better to start 1 big thread that i can funnel them all into and too overtime as they come up because as previously stated in other threads, i have a lot of time and work to do between now and actually breeding

today’s questions center mainly on pure locality breeding:

-1: how do you establish pure locality breeding lines without inbreeding?

-2: how would you replace a rare locality specimen without inbreeding when it could be next to impossible to find both a specimen from that species and more than that, is the correct sex that’s needed?

expounding on 1: my confusion is take for example my Colombian Red Tails (CRTs) - my plan is to breed them and sell off all the offspring - as they closer to old age and begin to show signs of decline how could i preserve said line? should i hold back a female and then later pair that female with a 100% pure CRT male?

which that seems easy with the CRTs as finding pure Colombians is not impossible just difficult but what about more rare localities like say my Rockhampton coastals or my Great Basin gophers? because I’m thinking about this it’s like, worse comes to worse “in theory” (depending on Nevada/Utah law) i could go to the Great Basin desert and WC a breeding pair - i however could do not go to Australia and do the same because from what i understand they’ve banned animal exports