Quote Originally Posted by treeboa View Post
Man is this true! Papers on hets are worthless unless they're from Ralph Davis or something. Would think people would just start making their own "lab results".
That is a bit of a ridiculous statement. While there are a handful of dishonest folks out there, the overwhelming majority are on the up and up. Having a big name does not ensure honesty, and not having one does not ensure dishonesty.

If I kept/bred boas, I would weigh having this done, and if it were a reasonable price per animal, why not have it done. Problem is, when if a good chunk of your breeding colony comes back as carriers? Are you going to cull them? Up to this point, you really cannot blame the person you got it from if you have an asymptomatic carrier, so what will you do? One of the biggest barriers will be that folks do not want to have answer this question.

I laud this as a very important step to wiping out the condition, but putting it in to effect will a whole other issue.

As far as paying extra, I think the cost of the test suffices as any added on charge.