Bax155
Very Well-Known Member
Glad someone from the US has finally commented on this topic, EVERYONE should read Nick Mutton's post and listen to what he is saying, as Nick is more qualified to comment on this topic then any of us Aussie keepers having witnessed the outcomes first hand!!just to comment on a few of the things said in this thread:
Bredls jags are virtually never red, I have seen many in person and there was not a red scale on any of them. The pics posted at teh start of this thread are either an anomaly or they were photoshopped, I know the site they came from and they have a history of suspicious pics that appear to be color enhanced.
On the issue of jag prices plummeting, its true and has already happened, you can curerently get them for as litttle as a few hundred dollars, people are startng to sell them to wholesalers and this year they will be even less.
The jag crossing fad here is dying quickly, but the damge is done now.
The state of our captive gene pool over here was already bad but now its a catastrophe, there are three and four way crosses being dumped into the pet trade with no background, and no accountability. In just a couple of years they managed to crosses those dam jags to every subspeicies that we have available and even GTPs.
In addtion I never see anyone on this forum talk about the nuerological problems that jags have. The fact is that along with this mutation many jags develope these problems and in some cases it can be severe, animals have tremors and what almost seem like seizures, particularily when they are exited or stressed.
Australian keepers should really think hard before they rush to imitate whats gone on in the USA and Europe.
I see the pro-hybrid peopl on this forum making the same tired excuses for the practice I see poeple make over here. If you want to see what uncontrolled crossing will do to your hobby, just look over here. After nearly 20 years of people doing it over here its now very difficult to even find pure carpet subspecies. There are thousands of carpets prodcued here every year and there is almost no backggroiund information on most of them.
There are still pure lines around but you have to do a good deal of research to find them and pretty much have to assume that the large majority of unknows are tainted.
Is this really the way you want your hobby to go in Australia? and for what, some flashy jag crosses that nobody is going to give a crap about in a few years anyway?
Nick
Nick produces some of the best Bredli I have seen from the US and if you have seen some of his collection of Bredli there is no way you would condone or want to buy one of these mungrel Bredli wanna be pythons, even putting the Bredli in its description is a slur on the Bredli name, ALL crosses should be given completly new name's so as not to confuse or associate with what they originally came from!! Thats my 2 bobs worth anyway
Cheers
Bax