Scale-less BP photo!

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So is this the new divisional line in our hobby? Anatomically correct and natural occurring purist and designer freakshow lovers?

My statement is fairly valid. You're being quite the unreasonable juvenile about a physical defect you do not have any mandate to own. You are completely unaffected by it because there will be people (foolish) like you that will not work with this gene at all. It has absolutely NO effect on you. Quite literally.

Get over yourself, you're making this into something it is not. It literally does not affect you so long as you make it so.

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This is nothing new, this division has been there for a LONG time. There is a high number of herpetologists and hobbyists out there what despise what we "do" in the ball python world. Some do go as far as only keeping specific localities of animals and keeping blood lines pure. But on that, I think the morelia keepers are far worse, mixing species and subspecies like its nothing... this I HATE, you have no idea what your buying any more the bloodlines are so muddled. As far as I know there are no subspecies of ball pythons, so breed away. I am 100% anti hybrid.

As for the scaleless thing, not my cup of tea, and I will have to agree with expensivehobby on everything he has said thus far. We have to have a point where we stop if anyone is ever going to take us seriously, the 'serious' side of the community already sees us as a danger to the hobby, not to mention a joke.

The whole thing about dogs that was brought up, well with some breeds the point of no return has been reached, and it should be illegal, were at the point where the only way they can reproduce is by cutting them open because they can no longer give birth naturally, its sick. And thats where were headed with ball pythons, and corns and all of these other 'designer' snakes.

We have already gone this far, its here, its here to stay, I just hope it stops here. And maybe its not all that bad, maybe I just have an extremist view here, I dont know, but it will be interesting to see how the rest of the herp community reacts to this. I just hope that these animals are anatomically correct, minus the scales, and as we all can see by the picture, it doesn't have heat pits so were already screwing with that. It will be interesting to see how the animal develops.