I'm on the fence with hybrids. Some of them look great, but the way people go about making them is sometimes awful. I don't want to see clutch after clutch of dead babies before a new snake successfully appears, that's not cool. I also don't want to see snakes that look so similar they can be easily confused for the regular population, because you don't want to dirty up the bloodlines.
If the snakes are healthy, they are properly identified, and people are responsible with them, I think some of them are quite beautiful. But when people start stepping out of line it gets iffy.
I actually have seen some hybrids happen in the wild. It's rare, but it happens. Of course you aren't going to naturally find a green tree python that mates with a carpet python in the wild, but you aren't going to naturally find a coral glow desert super pastel either. As long as there is no damage to the animal and it lives fine and healthy, cool... Honestly I've seen albinos of some species that do worse than some hybrids but I don't have a problem with them if they are maintained properly. (certain albino lizards requiring uvb have a habit of going blind. Albino iguanas even have a much higher chance of it)
I personally wouldn't want to produce them or anything! As a pet, it would be interesting.
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