Johnothan Wallace, aka The Bearded Herper joined me on the show today to finish off a discussion we start in the comment section of one of my YouTube videos. In this episode, we discuss the ethics of morph and hybrid production, the pros and cons of each as well as maintaining a high standard of care while breeding reptiles.
SHOW NOTES: https://www.animalsathomenetwork.com/65-the-bearded-herper/
Check Out Custom Reptile Habitats! HERE: https://www.animalsathome.ca/crh
#BeardedHerper #Reptiles #animalsathome
LINKS FROM THE EPISODE:
https://www.facebook.com/thebeardedherper
https://www.instagram.com/the_bearded_herper/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelizardofoz
SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST:
APPLE► https://apple.co/347PjSO
SPOTIFY► https://spoti.fi/2UG5NOI
GOOGLE► https://bit.ly/3dX6bQq
STITCHER► https://bit.ly/2UFzwHM
_________________________________________
WEBSITE► https://www.animalsathome.ca
EMAIL►hello@animalsathome.ca
FACEBOOK► https://www.facebook.com/AnimalsatHome.ca/
INSTAGRAM► https://www.instagram.com/animalsathomeca/
DONATE TO AMAZON RAINFOREST CONSERVANCY (ARC): http://amazonrainforestconservancy.com/
BELOW ARE MY AMAZON AFFILIATE LINKS. PLEASE READ DISCLAIMER: More information here: https://www.animalsathome.ca/affiliate-disclaimer/
PODCAST EQUIPMENT:
ZOOM H6: https://amzn.to/3n2YBIP
Shure SM58: https://amzn.to/2Gqx2Ze
Microphone Boom: https://amzn.to/33g40UT
Microphone Desk Stand: https://amzn.to/34r6wHx
Head Phones: https://amzn.to/3cLmdNl
FILM & OTHER EQUIPMENT:
Shelving Unit: https://amzn.to/2waz0nD
Camera: http://amzn.to/2D8Ed0w
Lavalier Microphone: http://amzn.to/2oPjpac
Action Camera: http://amzn.to/2HeDug
Voice Over Microphone: https://amzn.to/2AXyq22
Drill: https://amzn.to/2SH9Veg
ABOUT DILLON:
Welcome to my channel, Animals at Home! Here you will find the reptile videos I have made as well as video versions of The Animals at Home Podcast! The podcast mainly focuses on the pet reptile industry. My mission with Animals at Home is simple: To inspire others to push the limits of their reptile husbandry by promoting the importance of high level, creative husbandry individualized for each reptile.
DISCLAIMER:
Try this at your own risk! I take full responsibility for the safety of this setup for myself but cannot recommend anyone copy what I have done unless you are willing to do the same.
source
Thanks for listening! What are you thoughts? Are you in favor of morphs and hybrids? Do you think they are terrible? Somewhere in between?
I have a 2nd gen hybrid, his parents are a corn snake and a Honduran/brooks cross, I bought him at an expo in 2018 as hatchling and now he’s about 2 or 3yrs old and just over 4ft, I’m currently housing him in a 40 gallon 🙂
I'm very wary of hybridisation due to what's happened with it in hamsters. Essentially it's very difficult to find a "pure" winter white or Campbell's dwarf because they have been bred together so much. Most hamster breeders are unethical in their practices so this really hasn't helped since the breeders don't care about the bloodlines. This has led to these hybrids having shorter lifespans and an increased risk to diabetes and neurological conditions. I really don't want it to get to that point with reptiles, all it takes is a few mistakes. Besides they're so interesting and beautiful already, especially with morphs which I consider to be much less damaging, I really don't understand the point. Just my two cents.
DILLON have you seen the Facebook snake hybrid group? Its crazy the crosses some of those folks have and breed.
Should've talked about inbreeding depression, bottlenecking, genetic linkage, genetic drift and so on. Would be interesting to know the opinion on morphs of a geneticist; I have the impression that the genetic understanding of most people in the hobby doesn't exceed Mendelian inheritance.
American drug paranoia is crazy.
Hi there hope everyone is having a excellent day I had a question I have 7 leopard geckos and they all hate bedding do you think there is a way to change there minds because when I put bedding in there the freak out and scream and I don’t want to add stress
I have a very important question I completely understand if you don’t respond but my leopard gecko Noah who you convince me or told me the most natural way was to use above 10 kidding it’s not recently been doing well he’s not coming out to bask he staying in his hot hide which is only about 80° and he’s barely even eating do you have any suggestions let me know
I want to be the best keeper I can be, so its kind of a relief that others struggled and made mistakes too
Passionate about abronias… thats my dream is to have as many abronia species as possible and keep them successfully
But there's barely any information of YouTube, and I'm not going to try and keep them until I know as much as I can about them.. information is scarce though.
Awesome podcast! I'm a beginner in the hobby, and am currently gathering everything to make bioactive vivariums. I have a crested gecko and two whites tree frogs (both in 18×18×24s)
I'm so lucky that I have access to YouTube and the wealths of knowledge in the reptile hobby.
Really enjoying these podcasts. Some great topics 👌
Good video. Great point on quarantine tubs and "industrial" operations as temporary and/or disease control solutions. One of the most popular rack producers meet veterinary standards for sanitization. Freedom Breeder racks are built to allow sanitization of every surface.
One nitpick: you cannot breed out or cull the wobble from spider. Many have tried and none have succeeded. From what we know about these mutations in jag and other expressions it is entirely developmental.
Very cool show. Got to meet Johnothan Wallace and his wife a few months ago.
Great show, Dillon. Congrats on getting married. Personally, I'm not a fan of morphs and, especially, hybrids. But, I do see both sides of the coin on this topic.