Inbreeding depression and selective breeding?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

1.) Do you selectively breed your ball pythons, or do you breed anything that WILL breed?
2.) Do you think that consistently breeding BPS with "faulty" genes is polluting the BP gene pool?

1/ Yes I have spent a lot of time, effort and money in trying to select and acquire some of the best example of morphs out there.

I do not buy a morph just to say I have it or to breed it, I selectively acquire or hold back morphs that are the best example of the morph I want to work with based on MY personal test ( now the best of a morph will not mean the same for everyone )

So do i breed selectively? Yes but than again based on question 2 maybe not so depending on your or others standards.

Here is the problem with the question number 2, since you have referred to Spider breeding twice, do you consider Spider breeding polluting the BP gene pool and therefore lack of selective breeding?

If you do than I assume by me breeding Spiders and Spider combos I contribute to the polluting of the gene pool and therefore this might not be what you called selective breeding.

Some people do refuse to breed Spiders because of what you refer to their "faulty" gene does that mean they selectively breed their animals and I don't?

I guess it depends if one think the spider gene is faulty as well.

Not such an easy question after all is it?

But I will tell you this I am selective in what I breed and there are morphs I will not breed but Spiders are just not one of them.