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[BWSmith]

Originally Posted by razeraze

I believe this should go further than albinos. I believe the bat eaters, dwarf retcs and "designer" reptiles should all be kept from the greedy profession of the reptile world. .

I can certainly agree with you about “bateaters” and the like. But I would never put dwarf retics in the same category. Dwarf Retics are not hybrids, they are locales from various islands. If memory serves, all the dwarfs fall under the subspecies of P r jampeanus. So I see no difference between keeping P r reticulatus and jampeansus or saputrai. Your mainland P r reticulatus ssp has been morphed out and mutted much more than any of the dwarf varieties. Even the so called “super dwarf” is actually a locale, not a morph. Granted, many breeders are breeding P r reticulates with the dwarf locales to get smaller morphs. But putting Dwarf Retics in the same category as hybrids and morphs just doesn’t make any sense. it is like condemning someone for breeding Nicaraguan Boas rather than Guyanan because they are smaller.