Quote Originally Posted by prattypus View Post
I'll ask this now, since I've wondered about it, but never wanted to start a thread about it. How big of a concern is inbreeding? If you breed the offspring back to their parents, or other siblings- how high is the risk of birth defects, and the like?
Basically,

all genetic mutation color morphs, such as albinos, anerythristics, axanthics, hypo's, erythristics and all those others came, at some point, from the wild. The original snakes that are found are collected and kept, and then bred to make more of the color morph. I myself own three color morph animals collected directly from the wild, one of which is my Albino Dekay's Brown snake, which as of now is the only albino specimen in captivity (to our knowledge) and the other two are my Hypo eastern and a female flame eastern, both of which I caught myself. I haven't found any albino's yet... but with my luck... I'll keep my fingers crossed!