Is not like I hate hybrids.. some of them are stunning animals... my biggest concern in containment of genetic pull... especially if we talking about species very similar in appearance...
Children and spotted pythons was mix-breeded for long time... and because of that there is handful breeders I will trust to buy spotted python from...
Not even try start me on house snakes.. because mislabeling and misrepresentation 95% of Boeadon Maculatus and Boaedon Capensis are actually hybrids of this 2 species... even what is worse albino gene is transferable between this two species with making things more difficult.
I'm proud that my "Housies" are WC that give me opportunity to start my breeding program and start my own lineage.
Even with Cape House Snake I actually got a hold with guy from Southern Africa who is able to Ship internationally and I'm planning to make investment to bring new morphs and pure line of "capensis" to US.
As of low quality morphs with that big saturation of the market and everyone breeding balls with prices dropping everyday I'm not surprised that some people go with quantity instead of quality road...
But if buyers care more about quality of animal instead of price... brownout pastels right from the egg will disappear from market very very soon
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