"Also, could you elaborate and comment on this . . . "But virtually all morphs are already inbred and all possible routes/means to outbreed them should be practiced.""

What he means is that nearly every snake morph not commonly found in the wild is somewhat imbred, and that if you get one, it would be for the best not to breed it to siblings or parents, but an animal of a different bloodline.

For example, albino retics/burms. These both came along when ONE specimen of each was discovered in the wild. Well both parents need to be hets (albino gene carriers), and those being the first albinos, there were obviously no (known) hets to breed them to. So they were bred to normals to make 100% hets, and then the siblings bred together to make the first CB albinos. Most morphs are already the result of imbreeding like this, so thats why they should be bred to seperate bloodlines.

Hope that helps.

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