Quote Originally Posted by Brandon Osborne View Post

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Inbreeding is responsible for all of the genetic mutations we see in the hobby today. It is how we recognize locale populations such as the various phenotypes of California kings.....Yuma, Coastal, Desert, Long Beach, etc.

If you are still against inbreeding, just talk to some of the guys that keep Graybanded kings for a lesson on locality breeding.....they will teach you all you need to know.lol.
thats not true, inbreeding only causes recessives to surface. even in the case of recessives, inbreeding is not what causes the mutation, it merely causes it to surface. in the case of incomplete dominants and dominants, which make up the majority of BP morphs, your statement is clearly and completely wrong. it may be different for corn snakes or king snakes where the majority of morphs are recessives or polygenetic line-bred traits.

i agree that this will always be controversial. so i guess there is only one way to stay away from inbred BPs: you need detailed information about the ancestry, basically a pedigree, so that you can determine how inbred a BP you are considering to buy really is.