Most small monitor species are extreamly hard to find in the US. I know of one keeper that sold his entire collection (including a breeding group of Storr's monitors) to focus on ball python and boa morphs. While it is 100% a keepers right to choose what to keep, I can see how it can hurt the community when someone gives up breeding an animal that is only bred by 2 or 3 people in North America. Some species such as King's monitors 'went extinct' in the US. I know of one keeper that managed to import a group from Canada, but he has not had success breeding them yet. These monitors were once produced in quantity by commercial breeders....what happened?Originally Posted by wolfy-hound
From my observations, the 'rarity' of species seems to increase when that animal is not able to be imported into this country and/or when that animal is not as easy to keep. Look at children's pythons for example. How many children's pythons breeders can you list?
I do not think that the lack of focus on other species is caused by ONLY ball pythons though. More like reptile 'morphs' in general. People seem to avoid 'normal' reptiles these days...
IF someone hatched albino children's pythons, how do you think people would react? I would bet that there be more people breeding them within the next year.
But like I said. I don't really think it is the doing of ball pythons alone.....more like people being lured to the possiblity of making large sums of money off of easily breedable reptiles
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