When a new morph contains a genetic defect does that lower their cost? Thank you by the way your post was very very helpful. Seems that with only basic grasp of inheritability that they teach in high school anyone could predict the genetics with BP's (Though it seems the more expensive/rare morphs usually have something more complex about them). So people don't inbreed BP's to make sure for example the lines of a pinstripe don't break off/separate? Oh, i thought it was taboo because no one ever really talked about it and some people would delete said comments haha but it seems comments were deleted because of annoyance not avoidance.Originally Posted by aalomon
Dogs are very different from ball pythons. When breeding dogs youre trying to concentrate many polygenetic traits into a single animal. Your odds of this happening greatly increases when you line breed for generations and end up with a very limited gene pool. Inbreeding its self does not cause issues, but limiting the gene pool so severely magnifies any unwanted traits as well as any desired ones.
On the other hand with snakes the genetics we breed for are much more straightforward so outcrossing doesnt dilute the desired outcome.
Example: If there was 1 german shepherd in the world and you bred it to a lab, it would take a long time and a lot of inbreeding to get back to a "pure" shepherd. On the other hand if you take a pastel and breed it to a normal you get pastels in the first generation.
Somewhat, but remember people also want to make combos with a new gene so new morphs have a lot of outcrossing done as well.
Similar to why pieds can have varying amount of white, all spiders have wobble but the degree varies between individuals (the original spider wobbled). Actually spiders were one of the first popular ball pythons morphs so people bred them with everything they had, inbreeding had nothing to do with the wobble.
Ill also add this isnt a taboo topic at all. This exact conversation pops up on every forum a few times a year
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