What does CB stand for?
Either “captive-bred” or “captive-born”; the former meaning is probably more common. The issue is this: herps offered for sale may have been collected from the wild, or they may have been hatched/born in captivity. (There are very strong reasons to prefer to purchase the latter kind, but that’s not the subject of this question.) An animal that was conceived and born in captivity is said to be captive-*bred*. If, however, a female herp is imported from the wild and lays eggs shortly thereafter (having done her actual breeding before being captured), the offspring are captive-*born*. Animals that are “merely” captive-born are, in a sense, taken from the wild population (though most of them probably would not have survived to adulthood in the wild), but they enjoy most of the same health benefits accrued by captive-bred individuals. When breeders offer “CB” animals for sale, they *usually* mean captive-bred. This is by no means certain, however, especially with certain species that are ra
