And if you read my response to Tango (Marcia from giant feeders) via Ryan Shackleton's post in the retic forum, from a few hours ago on the same topic, you will see that I agreed with this precise aspect there too. We are on the same page with the burm and other large constrictor overproduction problem, please make no mistake there.



But what I was referring to here, is when a buyer forks out 10 or 20 grand for a pair or trio of the latest morph, and they are rendered unbreedable by a greedy manipulative breeder that only wants to control that morph and corner the market. Whole different can of worms than what you are talking about here. Still a valid point though.





>>What this industry needs.Not to the point of sterilizing every male on the market but a percentage at least.Reason being is this,If you have less fertile males on the market then the majority of the rescues that come about wouldnt be.Heres what i mean.Instead of everyone being able to breed burms and flooding the rescues only the big breeders who are responsible enough to do so would be able to breed for resale.Also if the big breeders wouldnt breed so many at once that would possibly help but thats another story in itself.The average female burm has around 30-50 babies which average male majority,so if you was to sterilize half of those males then sell the sterile ones the problem would be cut in half (probability, not fact).Although on the other hand since females do get bigger than males then it would only be right to sterilize some females as well so then the problem with rescues would be about a quarter of what it is now.Regards Bill McLeod
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