Quote Originally Posted by T&C Exotics View Post
Well let us look at a honeybee... hypo x spider take offspring spider and breed that back to the hypo or take spider het to a het sibling. There is your inbreeding. Then take that honeybee and breed it to a pastel sell offspring. One guy buys a trio to raise and breed. Constant inbreeding no matter what. Inbreeding is a fact of breeding snakes.
i would buy a butterscotch hypo from one breeder, and an orange ghost from a different breeder, and then i buy a spider het hypo and a pewter het hypo from a third breeder.

no inbreeding at all. maybe they were related at one point a few generations ago. but then, with butterscotch x orange ghost, maybe their ancestry is seperate going back all the way to africa. it happens all the time that people make their "extra gene 100% het albino" using an albino they got from one breeder, and their "visual albino with extra gene" using an albino they got from a different breeder.

and none of this applies to dominant and incomplete dominant morphs, which make up the majority of BP breeding projects. where is the inbreeding when i buy a black pastel here, a pinstripe there, and a bamboo from Noah from Ghana, and a calico from someone on craigslist?