Kathryn_
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Have you read my posts? I've stated repeatedly that I'm not aware of any current problems that have yet occurred as a result of inbreeding reptiles, partly because I can't find any good research, partly because I'm not sure people would recognise such diseases for what they were if they did show up, and partly because I'm not sure people would be forthcoming if they did produce sick animals.Since you seem to be so insistant that it is a problem how about you show us some examples of problems caused by line breeding reptiles.
Even if these are coincidences, and there are indeed no current examples of serious genetic disease in reptiles, it will only take two het animals producing a clutch of eight to create at least one, probably two, possibly three very sick animals. If those parent animals come from a long line of inbreeding then they are likely to have dozens of close relatives also carrying that allele. There was a first time for Familial Alzheimer's, there was a first time for Tay-Sachs, and there might very well be many first times for many genetic diseases in different reptile species that will lead to a lot of very sick animals leading very short andunhappy lives. It is a risk that is multiplied many, many times by inbreeding, and in my opinion, and unnecessary and careless one.