In Breeding

[twgrosmick]

So it's a bad idea to breed 2 siblings of the same litter, say to bring out a morph? What's the biggest concern, health problems or what?

Always knew it was a problem with other animals, but never gave it any thought with snakes, for some reason.

From my experience one or two generations doesn't cause an issue. Breeding a f1 to f1 sibling together to reproduce a morph won't adversely affect the snake. Even breeding the siblings to those back together won't cause any major health problems. It is when you have people breeding three, four, or even five generations that you see health issues, defects, etc. This is just my experience. If it is a new morph then there is no other option to produce it then to breed sibling to sibling. If there are unrelated lines available then I would def. try to get those before breeding siblings together. Just my opinion. The key thing is to make sure whoever you sell the snake/snakes too know the bloodlines of the animals so they know the shouldn't keep breeding them together.