Quote Originally Posted by 3skulls View Post
I'm not saying you shouldn't breed them. I'm saying if you do, you shouldn't label them as a guess. Let the buyer know that there is no paper work, that they could be crossed, etc.

I think it becomes a problem when people dont pass this info along.

Say a kid goes to show and picks up a BCI labeled as a Red Tail Boa. 5 years from now he gets into breeding without doing a ton of reserch. He picks up a BCC thinking he wants to breed Red Tails. Crosses it with the BCI, say the litter comes out looking more like true BCCs. Now he has his own booth selling a cross as a true form. Then the cycle starts all over.
If no one keeps the bloodlines pure, then we might lose them forever one day.

Remember I said I have a couple of pairs going now. I don't have full history or papers. I will not be selling them as a pure line of anything. It would be a guess at best.


I think the bigger breeders of locality Boas have paper work going back to were the snake was caught in the wild.

There are the purest out there.
Thank you and I agree I wouldn't use the guesses here for breeding info they are just barely reaching the year old mark and breeding is still a ways away from breeding I will only use the info from their papers when and if I do breed them. I can see more clearly what you are saying getting the guesses now is just going to help me do some of my own research until I do get their papers once my friend unpacks them. Since I have been out of the snake world for so long and never got into breeding when I owned snakes before I am very new to the whole locality thing and am finding it very interesting.

Now would you breed different localities of the same major type ie... bcc, bci, bca but different localities of the major archtype sumarian and guanya like I said just curious obviously morphs come from crossing things that would not have naturally occurred otherwise