Originally Posted by
Stefan-A
When I sell snakes I've bred, I hand them over with a piece of paper that includes all the information I've been able to dig up regarding their lineage. At least one snake out of one clutch had passed to a second owner without the same information attached. The next time it changes owner, it's going be just an undetermined "garter snake".
The next person might house it with a parietalis or a radix and if they don't get eaten, there might be a clutch of hybrids, that will be sold to even less well informed people or pet stores as "garter snakes", who might eventually end up breeding the hybrids to something else, or to each other. And if I'm especially unlucky, I might one day come across a "garter snake" for sale, that I identify as just an "interesting looking vagrans", which actually happens to be a vagrans x radix x sirtalis x marcianus mix.
I've seen people here house Florida Blues and light radixes together, seemingly not realizing that they're completely different species. And some day, someone is going to cross them and put the offspring into circulation. It's just a matter of time.
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