Quote Originally Posted by PythonWallace
I said you know only because of the generations of pedigree paperwork.
Exactly.

I said base morphs. Designer combos are obviously another story.
Then IMHO, designer morphs are equally (if not more) unethical than hybriding. I, of course, don't see anything unethical with either, but the point stands... hybriding is a great deal more likely to occur in the wild than designer morphs.

Says you. I would have more faith in some than others, but without the heredity paperwork, you can't be 100% sure, since it is so common.
And there are a lot of breeders that provide heredity paperwork... only buy from them.

Agreed, but this was a response to what you originally said. "Could you imagine one of the major breeders bringing in a genetically tainted BP, and selling the offspring as Ball Pythons?" I said, yes, I can imagine. Look at the Spider morph.
Ummm... Are Spiders Ball Pythons or not? You're comparing apples and oranges. A tainted genepool is NOT anything near the same as a genetic flaw. First of all... one is intentionally created, one isn't.