I was speaking of wild integrades/hybrids.....Originally Posted by MPenn
This is where you are wrong Andrew. The different carpet crosses here in the States are causing problems trying to find verifiable true species. There are a select few of us working with true forms (ie. pure coastal carpets, pure IJ's, etc.) to preserve the ability of future generations to find pure animals.
Have you looked at any of the 75% or 88% crosses?? Some could very easily be mistaken for a true breed.
Sure you can sleep sound and say that I will market and honestly represent the hybrids I produce. But, what about the person you sell the snake to?? How many times have you bought a snake and later sold it? How many people actually keep every animal they buy for the life of the animal??? Many snakes change hands many times and in those times I can tell you that I doubt the hybrid is always honestly represented.
I won't go with the argument about releasing them back into the wild. We all know this is not going to happen. But believe it or not, there are people out there that want a pure specimen of whatever species. The more high percentage crosses out there, the less the ability to find a pure form.
I am also a member on another forum where a guy in Europe who is a known carpet species hybridizer recently bought some snakes that were a bit unusual but he was told they were pure jungles (cheynei). Well he finally acquired the breeding adults of what he had bought and lo and behold, they were a hybrid. Looks to be a Savu x jungle carpet. The babies he had were 75%ers. You could tell by looking at some that they were hybrids for sure but there was one that could easily be mistaken for a pure jungle. Remember that percentages are only arbitrary. In a given clutch like this, they will not all be exactly 75% jungle. It is only statistical.
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