The Ethics of the Scaleless Morph

[Malum Argenteum]

Cornish Rock chickens (a breed cross used for virtually all chicken meat in the US) are much more troubling than any problematic reptile morphs.

I'll take this back. Sounds like scaleless is about equally bad.

I'm not a BP person, so I did a general web search for the morph. The most interesting thing to me is that the first hit was a "care sheet" that, among apparent content misinformation, recommends scaleless BPs as a beginner snake. This suggests that taking some of these problematic morphs out of the reach of unqualified keepers might be a reasonable step.

I notice that the big reptile classifieds site (which has a very high proportion of novice and casual buyers, at least in my recent time as a seller) prohibits listing Lemon Frost leos; perhaps they could be encouraged to think about prohibiting listings for scaleless -- not to prohibit anyone from keeping the morph, but to discourage sales to the wrong sorts of keepers (novice) under the wrong sorts of circumstances (easy online sales -- browse listings, send money, get snake).