What does a Het mean in snake breeding?
Het means the snake is heterozygous and therefore carries a recessive gene, but does not display the gene.
What does FC mean for reptiles?
FC. (Fauna Classifieds) Long-standing reptile forum where keepers come to post animals for sale, chat about the hobby, and leave reviews for breeders via the BOI.
What does CB mean in snakes?
CB/CBB stands for “captive bred” and/or “captive born and bred.” This is an animal that was produced in captivity. They are often used interchangeably.
What does pied mean in snakes?
Pied is just alternate slang for piebald, the descriptive adjective. It’s a genetically controlled trait that prevents colors from filling in where they belong on a normal specimen. White patches are left instead.
What does LTC mean in snakes?
LTC – Long term captive In short, it means a wild caught animal which has been in captivity long enough to have adapted to it and therefore carry few/none of the problems normally associated with WC reptiles. Many breeders use the 6month mark to decide when a reptile stops being WC and starts being LTC.
What does captive hatched mean?
Wild Caught Parents – Often the offspring from WC parents are sold as ‘captive farmed’ when in fact they are ‘captive hatched’. Parents may die before or after laying, thus reducing the number of animals of reproductive age in a population.
What does Ophiology mean?
the study of snakes
: a branch of herpetology concerned with the study of snakes.
What is Derpetology?
noun. The study of brain farts.
What is a CBB snake?
Captive Bred Wildlife. Tiger, Animal, Captive. YASG. Yet Another Snake Game. Game, Windows, Plate.
What does cb16 mean?
CD16 Monoclonal Antibody (eBioCB16 (CB16)), eBioscience
| Product Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Form | Liquid |
| Concentration | 0.5 mg/mL |
| Purification | Affinity chromatography |
| Storage buffer | PBS, pH 7.2 |
What does VPI mean in snakes?
Vida Preciosa International
Pure Axanthic snakes look very similar to a common Ball Python but are just black, white and gray. The first axanthic morph was bred in 1997. Most axanthic pythons today descended from one of four bloodlines: VPI (Vida Preciosa International – Dave and Tracy Barker).
What does field collected mean?
The term ‘field collecting’ is used to denote the collecting of objects by a named individual whilst in the country of origin (and most often, dealing directly with the previous owner).
What does farm bred mean?
Born or raised on a farm.
What are the 5 main types of ethical sourcing?
There are 5 different ways an animal can be sourced including: Wild caught, captive farmed, captive born, long-term captive, and captive bred. Wild caught exotic species are ethically sourced directly from their natural habitat.
What is a captive bred snake?
Snakes are often sourced from the wild, but are increasingly being sourced from captive breeding facilities that produce many thousands of individuals to meet demands for pets, medicines, leather goods and food.