Quote Originally Posted by mainbutter View Post
I'm just going to keep it short and sweet:

I agree that there is not enough selective breeding in ball pythons these days.. however, for reasons unrelated to the spider wobble and caramel kinking.

Because it's been pretty much proven that these issues are directly related to the single trait, no amount of "selective breeding" will be able to eliminate these problems.
Way more succinct than I could ever hope to express my position. Basically I believe that inbreeding should be avoided for general health of the animals but I think the problems with spiders, caramels, and super cinnamon/black pastel are all part of the expression of the respective mutation and not separate genes that could be bred out or in the line. Maybe someone will get lucky outbreeding these and find a separate gene that compensates for the negative aspects of those mutations but then we'll need inbreeding to keep that 2nd gene in the project.