This really should happen as best we can...



and, yes for the benefit of the animals...particularly to limit

excessive inbreeding in couperi and erebennus.



There are not many bloodlines out there.



Here's the problem:



Most of the captive eastern indigos are cb for many generations. They are traced back to animals taken from the wild from FL before 1971 when FL listed this animal as threatened. Back then...private keepers simply did not keep locality records, linage data...etc.



The remaining captive animals are traced to stock from zoos/ wildlife centers etc..(the stock came from confications or injured animals that were brought for rehab...so no local info is usually avaiable.)



So...bottom line is...ask an indigo breeder where his linage is from and the best he usually tell you is the guy he got his stock from and maybe the guy who produced the parents...but no one really knows the original linage.



So...the best we can do is try not to breed animals we KNOW are closely related.



I would guess the same would hold true with erebennus...as there are only a few folks working with them, and you can no longer take new stock fom the wild.

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