Line Breeding vs Morphs

[t_h_wyman]

@halohelix

How bad can the side effects be in reptiles? From what I’ve seen reptile inbreeding isn’t as bad as say, mammal inbreeding, hence why it can be done longer/more often. I thought that they really didn’t have any side effects at all due to how often I see it happen.

I do not have a ton of time to delve into this at the moment but if you check here:

Breeding siblings together?

It is a common trope in the hobby to see people claim that snakes are sedentary in the wild and, thus, inbreeding is not an issue. This is more a justification for inbreeding that it is based on fact. The huge range distributions of the species we are dealing with proves that they are actually pretty good at traveling around. When you further account for spacial, temporal and sexual distancing and how they relate to population dynamics then you come to recognize that inbreeding is not that commo…

And here:

Breeding babies back to parents?

Caveat: I have not read through this whole thread so some of what I say here might have been mentioned . . It depends on the nature of the animal we are working with. We already have some very clear cases of inbreeding depression in the hobby where the family trees look like a palm tree. A great example would be Granite in carpet pythons. The flip side is that we have some unique cases where the species we keep have gone through an evolutionary bottleneck prior to entering the hobby and ther…

And here:

Inbreeding in feeder rodents

Yes, thank you. Fingers moving faster than brain. LOL . . . This is a fallacious argument that is constantly thrown about when comparing two different organisms on the gross level when that is not the realm we are dealing with Inbreeding effects are a genetic issue. And genetics is genetics is genetics. It does not matter is we are talking about humans or humpbacks or ball pythons or bandicoots or mice or moose Inbreeding effects are the result of a loss of genetic diversity because ther…

I do some breakdowns on inbreeding with regards to reptiles.