EP74 – The Evolution of Chondro Shed Testing

And, you know, I think that also for the shed sex testing, like if I'm buying something that say I could ask the breeder for a male and a feed the sire in the damn shed with the baby because I have a sibling male here to that male to that then I know that all I need to do is collect this male shed that I have and the baby and then submit the other two and boom, now I already know my shed or my, my sex for that, that new snake.

Hmm.

You know, so, and

I find that very intriguing.

And maybe what would help people understand like the reason why we need those extra sheds right now, which we're still working on a test, developing a test that'll work on a single shed like we can do in colubrids and now we can do in ball pythons.

And so we're still working on that and hopefully that can work.

But we have found out from people in academics that the sex chromosomes in the genus Morelia specifically is different than the other pythons, like ball pythons and stuff.

That's

my next question.

That's part of the problem.

Yeah.

So they're the one that we wanted to start with ended up being the most difficult of all the pythons, which you guys.

I'm impressed.

You're talking to 20, 2009, 2011.

I mean, this has been a minute.

This is brewing for some time.

How many, how many years in dollars have been spent? You know, either if it's just payroll, people paying you guys to work on this out of your own blood, sweat and tears in their sacrifice.

This is a lot.

This is 2026, man.

You're talking 15 years plus.

That's impressive.

I didn't know that.

I didn't know that.

I don't think a lot of people did.

Yeah, I think