I am curious, what behavior are you speaking of?

Thanks



Quote Originally Posted by CraigC
As someone outside the ball python circle, my really one beef is the morph issue. I saw some of the genetic bad stuff first hand at Daytona last year. The table next to us had all kinds of bp morphs as well as other boid morphs. They were a jobber and produced nothing on their table. I freaked out when I saw the behavior of the spider balls they were selling. I actually thought there was some type of desease involved and affraid for our emeralds. I actually went looking at different ball breeders tables to see if any of their spiders acted that way. Most did and after asking others about the behavior, learned that this was "normal" for spiders.

I am not a radical when it comes to inbreeding (linebreeding), it is just something I disagree with and will never knowingly do. The bp market is growing so fast that there has to be pressure to produce the popular morphs and I have a feeling that some may forgo common sense and maybe carry the line breeding too far. I have a feeling that unlike most hobbiests, big breeders consider their animals as livestock and not pets, with the market being the driving force behind their mass production. With that maybe some animals that should have been culled (meaning sold as non-breeders) have been sold with maybe some misinformation about their origins or genetic viability.

Craig