Your view of the reptile hobby

[Mikoh4792]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

A lot of people express the same "annoyance" with ball pythons and other commonly bred species being prevalent at expos. Yet none of those people are willing to change that. So why even mention it? Especially in a thread about changing the hobby. It's odd to talk about change then say there's no reason not to. Kind of makes the discussion moot if no one is willing to change anything...

Never said there's no reason not to. Just saying I probably can't make much of a difference myself since a) I'm not a big name breeder b) I can't tell others not to breed ball python morphs. But the change is something I would like to see....which was actually the original theme of the thread. I can discuss this can I not? Call it moot if you want, I'm just here to discuss. If you don't see a point in this, you don't need to participate.

Again you seem to be missing my point. What I'm doing about it is discussing it, spreading ideas, sharing ideas....etc. Conversation goes a long way. I'm not going to be a hero and take radical action against this trivial annoyance. Stop trying to get me to do something about it! LOL

You must be fairly new to the hobby. Carpet pythons had their time in the sunlight and people were buying them like crazy to make Jaguar this and that. It actually picked back up a few years ago with the zebra's and granites and albinos.

Nothing quite like the ball python world but it sure did happen where people were buying them up for the "next big thing". So it already happened with your favourite.

Fairly new yes. Not completely new.

I am well aware of how carpet pythons were then and are now . However as you said yourself, it's not nearly as bad. Not so bad it takes up the majority of most expos. Not so bad since there is still a valuable market for "normals and locales". Within any given genus/species....etc there are people who will just like the species for the morphs. When it comes to jags and such... I also view that aspect of carpet pythons in a negative way, and I talk about it when it is relevant.

But since it is relevant now, yes even with carpet pythons I don't get the whole craze over jaguars... but I'm not trying to stop people from keeping/breeding them.