I don't currently work with ball pythons, but I'm pretty sure all of those morphs didn't just fall out of the sky. They were bred, then in-bred from wild-collected animals.
Bug-eyed Leucistic Texas Ratsnakes, neurological problems in Ball and Carpet Pythons, scaleless-ness in numerous species are just a few examples of the evidence of inbreeding depressions and negative mutations fixed through inbreeding that I need. Sorry that you can't handle opinions that differ from yours.
We know that wobble in balls and stargazer are corns have been linked to other mutations. However, while, to my knowledge, wobble remains in spiders, stargazer has, in fact, been unlinked from its original morph (or may not have been linked originally, but had a commonality). To the best of my knowledge, wobble in inherent in spider ball pythons and all of them will have it to some degree, but the stargazer trait, which is similar, is not inherently attached to any particular corn morph, though it was more common in some morphs than in others. They are both neurological problems that effect the animal without impeding feeding or breeding.
Stargazer in corns has continuing breeding trials and testing to try and weed this condition out. New blood from wild caught animals will not necessarily be what we need to create stargazer-free animals, good lines without stargazer to cross into our projects is sufficient. It's still a hereditary trait, and animals can be heterozygous for stargazer without their owners knowing this, and again, WC will not make that go away if that het continues to get passed around.
I am not personally certain that scalelessness constitutes immune system depression. I find those snakes kinda weird looking, yes, and think a snake without scales is just plain odd. But, as far as I am currently aware, they are not inherently less healthy than their scaled counterparts. If you are trying to make the point that a scaleless animal would be less likely to thrive, or to survive at all in its natural habitat, well, my snow corn would probably die in the wild because of his color. My red (2 amel, and 1 hypo) snakes would have a tougher time surviving. Not because they are less healthy, but because they are less fit.
I am not certain that scalelessness creates a less fit animal, but I do think it is possible.
While not wholly a discussion relevant to the BOI, since it was being used as a defense for wholesalers selling wild caught animals, I wanted to put in my comment. Then the connection between importers/wholesalers and warehousing for the animals, and the necessary husbandry to keep them healthy and so on blah blah blah.
Whether we actually need wild caught animals or not to keep our stock genetically diverse, the importers and wholesalers still have an obligation to those animals to treat them well, feed and water them, and give them proper care. The animals didn't choose to be there, we chose to take them and use them for our own purposes.
