I am wondering what the consequences would be??????? I am not sure where you think this is or what you think is going to happen. Its not illegal or anything. its merely folks making choices, both sides.



All crossing them in captivity does is force keepers to educate themselves. That is, instead of going by blind belief. They must learn what the animal they want looks like. That must be painful, I guess.



With the the ones you crossed, animals that are so closely related. You should keep what you think represents the animal. About whether its pure or not. Well got me, if there are intermediates in nature and there are. Then its only about people picking something out of a bunch and calling it what they want.



As far as thayeri is concerned, which one is the REAL thayeri????? As one of the original collectors of "thayeri" the ones in captivity now, do not look like the ones we found in nature. Not in the least.



People pick the pretty ones, breed them to other pretty ones and get neon litebulb snakes that look nothing like Thayeri. yet they call them pure. Odd I tell you. It makes me scratch my head.



I still call BS on most of those that say they breed for natural(pure) not many here or anywhere breed for ugly. They either catch or buy the prettyist they can fine and breed for that, or some other morph. Wheres the drab normal corns, the drab normal fla kings, the drab normal cal kings, WOW the drab normal pyros, zonatas, etc.



They are still in nature, thats where they are. hahahahahahaha



Even John, he's a great breeder, a great person and has great animals, but come on, granite mex mex. You may have to collect several hundred before you find one with a small amount of those traits.



So yes, I find this pure business a bit silly. Just do what you want, and no consequences will occur for that. Even if you produce hybrids.



About your invasives in fla. The reason they exsist is, there is very little native habitat in Fla to support native species. You have altered habitat, full of non native plants, insects, mammals, birds, frogs, lizards, snakes, etc, there's nothing natural about Fla. So what prospers is generalized species, not highly adapted species(native). The habitat those species were adapted to is gone. Good luck

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