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Old 24-04-2008, 08:56 PM
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The simplest option to protect your line is to only sell a single sex of the babies for the first few seasons, I believe this was done with some of the first san Francisco Garter Snakes and Mandarin Rat Snakes, where predominantly male babies were sold.
Didn't think of that.
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Old 25-04-2008, 08:17 AM
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thats less to do wiht protecting lines and more to do with the sex ratio of the hatchlings.
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Still good business sense though, a few years ago some french breeders of stick insects went extremes and were breeding some really nice stuff, but were microwaving the eggs for a second or so thus killing the contents ( if they were fertile to begin with! ) they then proceeded to sell tons of eggs, which had an incubation time in excess of 6 months, as the majority of buyers were Joe Bloggs spending their well earned cash on something "special" when hatchtime was overdue and complaints rolled in the basic answer was " How do we know after this time it isn't a fault on your part"

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