While this is very true with certain animals, and certain strains of animals(snakes included), this really depends on many other factors though too, as to exactly how much inbreeding a certain strain can withstand.

It all depends on what other bad, fatal, or otherwise undesirable "tandem" traits might happen to go along with any particular line of animal's chromosomes.

Take for instance, the "bug-eyed" trait in leucistic Texas rats, or no eyes, or cyclops trait with Burmese, or even the small size, finicky feeders, and general lack of vigor in the blood reds you mentioned.

Some snakes are simply affected far less with inbreeding than others are. Another thing is that snakes are a far simpler organism than a dog, or human too. They are FAR more complex genetically-speaking than snake's are.

All these different factors have to be considered here. Yes, some do have problems, while others may show little to no affects from countless inbreedings, it is a very complex thing for us to grasp all of what really goes on inside any organisms genetic coding..LOL!

Of course, all of the crazy stuff we see now in the market was generally a result from doing a certain amount of inbreeding to get the desired "look" in the first place, but it is of course a good idea to introduce new blood once in a while, especially after a weird morph is already well-established and one can afford to easily do so.

But in any case, it really all depends on what other traits we cannot see at all that are also inside the snake's DNA genetic coding. This is something many folks don't even give a second thought to. They just want a cool lookin snake..LOL!


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