Ethics on champagne ball python breeding?

So there was a very recent post on ethics for spiders recently. I would suggest reading through that for some thoughts since they are in the same allelic complex. I’ll link it at the end of my post.

The BP market is Extremely oversaturated right now. These are extremely common genes, and champagne obviously being a problematic gene. The best combo you will get is a pastel enchi champ from this pairing. This is not a fancy or designer combo if you compare it to dog breeding. This is just a mutt.
Common combos like this will be likely to just sit with you for a while and take up time, space and feeders unless you go for wholesale pricing. I recently sold a pastel cinny for 40$ as an idea of pricing for this sort of combo.

A ‘designer’ BP would be the currently trending and new combos that breeders like Kinova or Above are breeding. They are also working with the best expression of the genes they have, which can be a very long process to create because it involves line breeding, an extensive breeding project of selecting the best looking expression of the gene and breeding that to similar or better to get a consistent look.
Even then, I would not consider them ‘designer’ because the term itself is just a way breeders will try to justify that the animals they produce are a commodity. It’s a marketing strategy and should not be what you are pushing your work towards. Especially if you are trying to also consider rescue work. It’s an extremely contradictory look at things. You’re trying to find forever homes for abused or unwanted animals…but also producing MORE animals that you are calling designer like a hot new fashion.

There are a lot of things to consider before breeding. I would definitely look to study up on the genes before even attempting it. You have a couple of years to do that.

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