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herpconsultants2
at Thu May 22 06:14:11 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by herpconsultants2 ]
I should also say that snake breeders, well ball breeders especially, are in some way avoiding inbreeding depression, through the production of hets. The use of wild blood to cross with all morphs to produce hets 'injects' fresh genetic diversity into the captive population. That is why one should always think about having 'normals' in the collection, and keep outbreeding the morphs.
It may be easy to say now that inbreeding isn't having any effect, but what about in ten years? Keep them hets coming!
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