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View Poll Results: Which morphs, if any, do you avoid? (You can select more than one option)
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Spiders (because of the "wobble")
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Caramels (because of the kinking potential)
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Caramels (because of the female subfertility)
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Super lessers (because of the bug-eyes)
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Super cinnies (because of the duckbill/kinking)
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None of the above
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Re: Do you avoid morphs with known genetic flaws?
 Originally Posted by rabernet
I'm curious, I remember from past conversations that you are a young man (15 if I remember correctly). You present yourself very well for 15. Very opinionated for your young age, but very well. How many ball pythons are you currently working with yourself? How many different mutations?
I have albino, pied, OG, pastel, citrus, line bred granite, ivory, combinations of those genes, and a few others. I don't know the exact amount. I have more of other species than ball pythons, and those have morphs also.
I also didn't say that I do have any of the morphs this poll was about. I have experience with other animals, like boas, colubrids, and geckos, and those have morphs. I think that with the spider wobble, people might be underestimating how powerful and sophisticated animals' brains are. People say that they want to keep the personality, but not the wobble or corkscrewing.
To me, that seems almost impossible. There is just too much variation. If people can barely line-breed for certain visual traits without altering others that they are not aware of, it would be all the more dangerous with neurological affects, especially since some become progressively worse/better with age, and people could easily alter other areas of the brain/neurological system without realizing it, just trying to breed them out of the problems.
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