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Originally Posted by snakekid6996
I would think that keeping track of lineage wouldn't be a huge deal. If I'm correct (which I very well may not be) than hybrids can't reproduce.
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1. Hybrid snakes can and do reproduce.
2. It is a big deal and many times in the past it's already been proven that the hobby can't police itself in this regard or really at all, but that's for a different thread.
In the past people were buying diamond carpet pythons (back then $1000+ each) and just breeding them to jungle carpets and selling them as "pure" diamonds because they look very similar to get that $1000+ price tag.
Now when breeder B breeds his "pure" diamonds they are no longer "pure" and it muddles up all future babies from this line.
Example 2, within boas there is the "central American" boa (Nics) who have a motley trait. It was originally sold as a "new morph" to this locality. The truth came out some years later that the originator just used the common "columbian" motley and bred it to the smaller Nic boa. The resulting babies looked different enough to claim them as "pure" Nic motleys.
So in reality, lineage is a huge deal and it only takes ONE person not willing to do it to ruin it for everyone in the future.
The last caveat is that unless it's plucked from the wild...most animals, especially locality boas and carpets I suspect, are muddled anyway.
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