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What to pair with....Female Creamsicle?

You also have to consider in nature corns and rats live in harmony without breeding...wonder why that is? Species are specific rats and corns aren't breeds, or morphs their a separate species all together and the more hybridizing the fewer of either are on the market. People say just collect more from nature, but theres no guarentee we'll always have either in nature so the responsible thing to do is continue the integrity of the species and breed corns to corns and rats to rats:)
 
I personally don't really mind hybrids as long as they are clearly marked and the buyers fully understand the responsibility if they ever choose to breed. Of course that is the issue, animals not be clearly marked and people are irresponsible. But the idea of hybrids does not bother me at all, I mean some jungle corns are just absolutely gorgeous.
 
Danielle,
Corns and rats do inter breed in nature. This usually happens on the edges of a species range. But like you said instead of collecting from the wild, we need to be honest, upfront and properly mark our snakes as they are. If they are hybrids mark them as such.

I like the fact that that everyone is comparing them to dog breeding, I never would of thought about it in that manner. Awesome idea
 
Technically, I think it's more like breeding a dog to a fox, or something similar but different species, as all dog breeds are the same species.....but I think it explains the point beautifully :)
 
I personally don't really mind hybrids as long as they are clearly marked and the buyers fully understand the responsibility if they ever choose to breed.

One problem with this philosophy is snakes trade hands. There's a neighborhood pet store I go to that gets several "trade ins" a year from different people. Some of the snakes are obvious hybrids, but there store has no way of knowing what snakes were used to create them.

The fact is that hybrids are sold all the time without the buyer knowing that the animal in question isn't "pure." I've been to some of the biggest shows in the world. While the market for some of the more colorful types of hybrids may be good, there's a heck of a lot of ugly hybrids produced too. Vendors will do just about anything to unload these snakes, including selling them as "pure." I've seen this happen over and over and over again.

This isn't necessarily an anti-hybrid arguement, but simply a statement of fact: Hybrids are not always clearly marked and often sold to unsuspecting people as "pure" snakes.
 
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