Double recessive projects?

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Thanks for your replies!

Do any problems exist with inbreeding snakes? Pretty much all of these plans require inbreeding, but I wouldn't want to purposefully create stunted offspring or anything.

[OhhWatALoser]

Thanks for your replies!

Do any problems exist with inbreeding snakes? Pretty much all of these plans require inbreeding, but I wouldn't want to purposefully create stunted offspring or anything.

As with all animals, inbreeding is bad only when bad genes are already present that can cause undesirable traits. Siblings would be more likely to have these bad genes pair up vs another random animal. In the same token, inbreeding can be used to strengthen desirable traits. Good news is it does appear the likelihood of having undesirable traits with ball pythons is pretty slim, so most of us will say it is perfectly fine with ball pythons.