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[MarkS]

Not into hybrids, but don't knock others. One question, is crossing different species of boas considered hybrids? ex Hogg Island X Puruvian or Normal X Hogg. Just wondering, my partner who deals with the boas crossed a Hogg X normal and got some pretty good looking babies. Also saw a cross between a Puruvian and Hypo normal and it looked very nice. Are these hybrids or just crosses??

If they are the same species and subspecies, then they are not hybrids. That doesn't mean they are pure blooded either. Many people in the boa world would consider them mutts. It would be no different then crossing a cornsnake from Florida with a cornsnake from North Carolina. They are two completely different populations with different looks, but the same species.

There are probably as many people who are as passionate about locality pure animals as there are people who are passionate about hybrids. I see them as two extreme ends of the snake keeping hobby as a whole.