problem with hybrids?

[David VB]

With so many awesome looking snakes (reptiles as a whole even), why do people need to mess to get more special (expensive?) ones... Just learn to enjoy and appreciate what nature offers us, darn it!

[snakekid6996]

Makes since, thanks for explaining everyone

[Will0W783]

I personally am ok with naturally-occurring hybrids, but there's some cause for pause when one is creating a hybrid that wouldn't happen in the wild.
For example, the Emerald tree boa x amazon tree boa hybrids look amazing as young snakes, and are relatively healthy for the first year or two. But the different sizes and head structures ended up leading to the snakes developing deformities in their skulls, neurological problems and most died within 3 years.
The carpondro hybrids seem to do a lot better.

Some hybrids happen in the wild, such as gabinos (Gaboon viper x rhinoceros viper), and puffoon (Gaboon x puff adder). These hybrids have been caught and imported and many are still doing great, and reproducing. I think these will eventually become new species in the wild. Carpet python localities naturally intermix in the wild at the edges of their overlapping ranges.

So, I think hybridizing is a grey area.