Quality of breeding stock

[Royal Hijinx]

I completely agree with everything you said, BUT.... how can new breeders learn and grow if we can't come on here and ask 'the pros' your opinion on a snake? This is my first year breeding, and although I have racked my brain for hours, days, weeks, MONTHS!! some things I still have questions about. I want to breed quality morphs. I want to do the right thing. I am an honest person who has morals. I have saved up, done payment plans, etc. and I 'feel' that I have purchased very nice quality morphs to pair up... heck, I think all of my snakes are purty. But I do feel that you can go about things the right way and still question your own judgement on a snake and want others' input, and there's nothing wrong with that! I guess my point is - I don't think it's wrong to ask opinions on the quality of a snake, after all we can learn and grow from it... but use some discretion first. Don't just find a snake and plop it up here on the forum and ask if it's a good one. Do your homework first, educate yourself if you really want to try to be a good breeder, and IF you're still truly unsure, THEN ask


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I am by no means discouraging asking about things. I am talking about further down the line when you are selecting your actual breeding stock. And you make the very good point of discretion. You should basically have most of it worked out already and are asking for some final "Yay/Nay" clarification.

It is easier to just plop up a snake and ask everyone's opinion than it is to do the research and look to what YOU want. So, that is what a lot of new folks will do.

This is also my first year breeding (but not my first keeping). For every hour I have been on here asking questions, I have spent at least twice that reading, researching, speaking to people directly etc... And I am still by no means an expert on anything.

In the end, the main point of my rant is: If you want to be a top notch breeder (nothing to with the number of animals or the newness of your morphs) you need to be selective in your breeding stock. We cannot stop OTHER folks from pairing every snake they can get in the same room, but WE can strive to make things better and to advance breeding projects.