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RE: Check this one out

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Posted by: bluerosy at Wed Oct 19 11:57:25 2005   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bluerosy ]  
   

i know inbreeding is necessary to make some morphs but i think its sort of wrong to inbreed them for more than a generation is wrong. yeah i know you breed the offspring of a clutch to get both of the parents genes but after that is it really neccessary?

Yes, hybrid vigor is good but you can get the same problems from hybrid snakes that you can with "inbred morphs". In other words inbreeding is not bad unless one passes along certain bad genes. Snakes are different from other animals and inbreeding depression et al has not been proven.

How do you suppose certain snake survive in small isolated rock outcroppings for hundreds and thousands of years? They are inbred but the weaker ones succumb while the stronger ones survive to continue "on" inbreeding. In captivity breeders do not make these selections that nature does. So inbreeding, in itself, will not harm a snakes lineage.

   

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