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RE: Northern pines

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Posted by: monklet at Mon Dec 7 10:56:55 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by monklet ]  
   

Nice snakes there and I understand the temptation to breed them but there are serious ramifications to doing so. Despite your best intentions, ultimately their offspring will be misrepresented and this will corrupt the CB gene pool for that/those species/subspecies/locales. This has been a tremendous source of grief for those in the hobby who take great pains to produce and distribute pure blood offspring.

I recently and naively purchased a "Louisiana Pine" which it turns out is a product of outcrossing performed many years back. Granted, it is a beautiful snake and I had planned on breeding it, even bought a known pure female, but fortunately I was advised of the issues and so prudently decided that the snake would be no more than a pretty pet. Very sad, he's a deadend, his ancestry muddled, faithful to none...like WTF is that?

I hope you make the most responsible decision and best of luck to you and your snakes

Brad

   

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