Rosy Boas

[Brewster320]

I've been wanting to get a rosy for awhile and reading up alot on them and I'm a little confused about something. I understand people who want to keep species and subspecies pure but I can't believe how frowned apon it is to mix localities even with the same subspecies! Personally I don't see anything wrong with mixing animals of the same subspecies. If you look at other species of snakes for the most part they aren't kept so strictly to their local but if you want a local they are available. Like you can get and okeetee corn but you don't get hate if you bred it to a snake from southern Florida. I mean you look at captive leopard geckos and basicly they are all hybrids of different subspecies and no one really cares. I don't know if I'm making sense to you guys. I understand breeding locals to keep the beauty of that local but if someone wants to breed a Harcuvar Mountains to a Harquahala Mountains I don't see why not, as long as they say they aren't any specfic local, especialy when it come to possibly creating new morphs. Thats just what I think.

 

[Ga_herps]

I kindof see your point, but The reason is because most people that work with rosy's know how hard it is to come across good pure stock these days. Definitely with the strict collecting laws that are coming into play. If we keep mixing them, and little or no pure strains are being bred in great numbers then we lose possibly a locality that will not be easily replaced. Corn snakes is a different story altogether. I can probably count on my fingers and toes all the locality specific breeders of rosies in the US, but corns the numbers are staggering. If you still would like to mix then as you said above, please specify the babies as such. I know that many people would love to buy them as pets, and it would make sure that no mistakes happen when someone purchases one as a future breeding project.

 

[GeckoStud]

I can see the points of both arguements. I personally have no problem with mixing localities of rosies provided they are the same subspecies. Many of the cooler morphs in rosies were the result of mixing coastal locals together. Whitewater Albinos are actually a subspecies hybrid too, althought the one species has been very "watered down" over the years. But I also understand and greatly respect keeping localities pure simply because of how hard it is to get your hands on them, some of which being nearly impossible.