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This sounds like such a dumb question to me. But, I have noticed that many of the boas for sale are as pairs, and that sometimes the pair are siblings. Are there many problems in boas doing that? I am newer to boas. I have lots of ball pythons and there are some morphs that have genetic problems and outcrossing helps a great deal.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer my question.
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Cheers,
Jessica
10.15 Ball Pythons; 8.9 Corn Snakes; 0.0.1 Green Tree Python
2.2 Jungle Carpet Pythons
1.0 Cay Caulker
1.0 Nic, 0.1 Tpos Nic
1.0 Hypo Het Albino BCI, 0.1 Albino BCI
0.0.1 BCC (almost 20 yrs old)
3.0 Crazy Dogs and 2.0 cats
Some Tropical Fish
...........and growing!

For line breeding it is often unavoidable when trying to pass certain traits on. I think it can safely be done for a couple of generations, but that is an opinion only.

If I buy pairs of siblings I normally have plans to breed them to different blood unless there is something special that I would like to bring out.

I think that it is done more often than most of us realize, so if you were to purchase a sibling pair I would always ask if the parents were sibs as well.

Joel

Absolutely agreed. I just do the same in my collection.

All the best,
Adam

That is what I thought, but always better to be informed than to make uniformed errors!
Thanks!
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Cheers,
Jessica
10.15 Ball Pythons; 8.9 Corn Snakes; 0.0.1 Green Tree Python
2.2 Jungle Carpet Pythons
1.0 Cay Caulker
1.0 Nic, 0.1 Tpos Nic
1.0 Hypo Het Albino BCI, 0.1 Albino BCI
0.0.1 BCC (almost 20 yrs old)
3.0 Crazy Dogs and 2.0 cats
Some Tropical Fish
...........and growing!

I appreciated this question, wondered about that, too. Great replies.