No it isn't right, it's dishonest and shameful but it is also irreversible at this point, there are too many people breeding too many snakes to know the true genetics of any of them, but there are a select few hard to find honest breeders out there, mostly those who breed their own wildcaught snake just because it makes them happy, not for profit. But even locality species can't be called locality anymore after a few years because the wild genepool in an area changes all the time, it would only take one snake in an area with a genetic morph to survive to adulthood and breed to change the entire look of a "locality" snake population after a few years. The answer is no it isn't right to pass off a snake with questionable background as pure, and even locality becomes false unless the breeding stock is refreshed from wild caught specimens every couple of years.
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Dustin Smith

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