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Originally Posted by toddnbecka
I've seen a few really wild looking colubrid hybrids, but in general the pythons aren't as widely divergent in appearance. I've seen a number of carpet/GTP hybrids, not so many carpet/BP crosses, but haven't seen anything that really made me say "I WANT that one..." They're pet snakes, as far as I see no different than crossing aquarium fish to produce different results. If that's what you like, what's the harm in breeding or keeping them?
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Originally Posted by PatrickT
no its exactly the same. i dont see the difference.
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I see the difference.
Many of keepers of fish only keep a few fish. They don't breed them and most fish species are tougher to breed than common python species.
That's the difference. Hybrid fish never really make it into breeding populations unless a breeder does it. Also, most breeders of fish I know of don't buy from random people. They get great stock and wild caught fish or farmed fish are way easier to come by.
In snakes, anyone and everyone produces snakes and lots of people pass along mutts as pure breds. Creating issues, and then some random guy who thinks he's a breeder will buy from less than ideal people and muddle up their "pure" lines too.
This was a huge issue 15 years ago. People bought a pure diamond python and bred it to a few $200 jungle carpet females and sold "pure diamonds".
That is the difference.
I personally don't care if people keep them as pets it's just shady when the crosses are less than easy to tell from a normal OR that the hybrid is then passed along as a "morph" of one of the parent species.
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