hi, i was just reading up on them as i'm interested in obtaining one and let me tell you, i'm MAD! first off, they take so many of them from the wild that it is said they're extinct, THEN, to TOP things off, DUMBASS breeders out there are crossing them with red-tails to achieve better colors ruining the damn bloodline and slowly making them permenantly extinct... this is wrong! i'm afraid to buy one now and pay good money for it because the snake might be a cross... in which case, it'll grow larger them 5-6 feet and probably won't be as tame and all..
sorry but i had to vent and this is probably the only place where i can... we are ruining a beautiful species of snake with greed!
that said, i want to get a breeding pair of real hogg islands and they MUST be real, pure blood, hogg islands.. i won't contribute to this madness.. how can i tell if they're pure? i want to get them small to raise them.. should i get dark not so bright tailed ones in hopes they are true hoggs? can some1 please help me?
thanks!