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27-Feb-07, 09:31 PM
| | | How important are photos of parents
Would you buy a hatchling without seeing pictures of the parents. I am looking at a BHP hatchling from a reputable breeder/company. But they are selling this for someone else and dont have any picture of the parents. |
27-Feb-07, 09:36 PM
|  | Sponsor | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Port Macquarie Age/Gender: 34  | | | | Try naming the breeder on this site and see how repeatable he or she is .
then make your mind up.
good breeders should be honest. |
27-Feb-07, 09:42 PM
|  | Willia6 fan Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Victoria Gender: | | | | Depends what you want the snake for, if you want one as a pet then photos of parents aren't too crucial. If you want to breed them for a specific trait or colours ect then there is more need to see what the parents are like.
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27-Feb-07, 09:50 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | | From certain breeders, i would buy a animal with out even seeing a picture of the ones im buying let alone its parents.
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27-Feb-07, 09:56 PM
| | | | chris-cool - yeah thats why I wanted to see the photos for. But I assume this would be more important for say a diamond than a BHP?. I assume a BHP will really only fade as it ages.
Correct me when I'm wrong
bylo - I am confidant that the seller is reputable. They have been mentioned on APS several times before. But I dont know who has breed them.
junglepython2 - I am looking for a pet. But if I end up wiht a beautiful speciman I may want to breed in a few years.
I suppose I'm asking would you buy a python without seeing the pictures of the parents.
Thanks for your comments so far. |
27-Feb-07, 09:58 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: north queensland | | | | sometimes hatchlings turn out to look nothing like adults (albinos out of normal looking snakes) ,see what i mean? as with some jungles you can get drab looking hatchlings out of great looking adults ,but if you breed from those hatchlings in the future you get once again great looking off spring there for seeing adults is not a true indication of what your getting!!! |
27-Feb-07, 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Kowari 
I suppose I'm asking would you buy a python without seeing the pictures of the parents.
Thanks for your comments so far. | In short, yes.
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27-Feb-07, 10:10 PM
| | | | Thanks guys. Helps a lot with my decision. |
28-Feb-07, 07:21 AM
|  | Seller | Join Date: May-06 Location: Somewhat Ashamed To Say On This Site Now! Age/Gender: 24 | | | | i have seen the mother to my bredli and the father of my md......
but not till well after i bought the hatchies! lol
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28-Feb-07, 08:12 AM
|  | Mr Knee Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-06 Location: Wollongong Age/Gender: 36 | | | | I think any good breeder/seller should be able to supply pics of the parents if you ask for them , if i am paying the price of a BHP and they cant show me a pic of the parents i would be considering looking else where .
after all its not really a big ask when you are giving them a big wad of money . |
28-Feb-07, 10:58 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: QLD | | | | imo it depends alot on the parentage, ie if the parents have been line breed for a couple of generations then yes the parents will give an indication of what the young will look like.
But if the parents are unrelated and or wild caught, only time will tell what the young will look like as both parents will carry a number of different gentic traits, some that dont show in them but may well show up in the young. |
28-Feb-07, 11:43 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Sydney | | | | I was going to say that pics of parents are very important..but then in your predicament..... hmm... How much can you gauge from just looking at the youngster? But then again how much can you guage from any photo of a parent? The flash could be on/off to make the patterning more vibrant/different, pics could be old/new, of differents snakes as to what they are being claimed to be.. :S Tis a gamble imo. I would always prefer to see the animals in question in real life but as you can't.. hmm.. Good luck in your descision!
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