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[wolfy-hound]

Subscribing to the thread. I hope that the desert problem is figured out, even though it will mean the value of desert females will rise and I won't be as likely to find a female desert for inexpensive price for me to keep. I wanted a female to keep mostly as a pet(because they are beautiful) since everyone said they couldn't breed.

I can understand some people saying that maybe a snake in the pictures(various) might not be a desert, or doesn't look desert. But to say that you hope someone's pet dies just so you can be right? Poor form. Poor form indeed. That's not being a anti-sheeple, that's being a jerk. Hoping no deserts are produced, or hoping the eggs don't hatch, etc, fine. That's petty. But hoping an animal dies? Sorry.

And jumping on the bandwagon of "All desert females are sterile/die and should never be bred" isn't being a anti-sheeple, it's just being a different kind of sheeple. You're falling in with the main bulk of the hobby that assumed that was true, even though there had not been very much breeding of adult large desert females as of yet. Could that still be true? Of course. There's been some females that die egg bound. There's been more than slug out or fail to become gravid. That's not absolute proof that all desert genes are going to be nonviable. Experimenting to see what will work or what does not work is needed.

Some female pythons will die when bred. No matter if they're deserts, morphs, normals or new oddballs. It will happen. Anyone who breeds any female is taking a risk of losing the animal, even if it's a cow or a fish. Desert females MAY have a higher incidence of egg binding, so anyone who is taking the risk should be prepared for a vet bill if things go wrong. But every person on here who owns even one animal should be prepared for a vet bill if things go wrong, whether it's a breeding animal or not.

I wish the OP all the best, I hope all the clutches produced hatch healthy babies and better yet that some are deserts.

I'd have posted the viable clutch too. Why sit on that news?? No one suggests that other people with clutches sit on their news until the eggs hatch. He didn't say Hey I'm producing a clutch full of deserts! He said "My desert female produced viable eggs" which is a accomplishment in itself. Considering all the people who are quite willing to state as fact "All desert females die when bred", it's a good sign that some lay their viable eggs without any issues.