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Now I've never bred any snakes, and I dont know if I never will.
But in researching boas, and snakes in general, I have been to probably a hundred or more websites, and one fact seems to become more and more clear to me...
People here in America don't seem to be worried about species purity when breeding snakes as much as people in Europe or Asia.
Even here on this site, I read people's posts that say "I got a boa, you got a boa, lets breed 'em", or, "I am getting a boa from so-and-so to breed with the one I got from someone or another" -- OR -- "If my het for stripes is bred with my half possible albino..." ETC, ETC.
People here ( in this country) also seem to use "boa" "BCC" "BCI" "RedTail" almost interchangably, as opposed to referring to a particular species by its proper name.
While thats not a problem in the course of conversation, in breeding that sort of generality would seem to me wildly irresponsible.
It seems that people here in the states are much more concerned with het this or albino that and any other mutation or anamoly or morph than preserving exotic species as they were meant to be, and as beautiful as they naturally are.
Also I would suspect that cross breeding is also weakening the gene pool, and many of the "mutations" or "morphs" are probably not as healthy as they should be.
In this age of vanishing habitats, and over hunting, wouldnt it make more sense to concentrate on PRESERVING these species' through CAREFUL breeding? Rather than supplying more "mutations" to those who just want to own another "morph" for their "coolness" factor.
Just an observation or something.....
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