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[Shadowmist]

If I were given a hybrid, I would keep it as a non-breeding snake. Other than that I would treat it no differently from any other snake.

If snakes are cross-bred or hybridized, unethical breeders might try to pass them off with out revealing it. Given that the captive gene pool is not going to significantly increase, it allows the possibility of degrading what pure stock there is.

The problem that I see is that with some of the subspecies, it may be hard to identify what may be a ‘pure’ snake from a cross breed..

As for inbreeding, I think that responsible breeders should try to obtain animals from different lines, so that inbreeding (and all the problems that this may cause) are minimized. Selective breeding for a trait will always go one, and where inbreeding has been used for this purpose, it should be noted. I would like to be able to obtain breeding records of snakes at point of purchase. Nothing that can identify the owners of the snakes, but some sort of unique number for the parents of the snake (ideally back 2 generations where possible).