>>And I think Tom C can confirm that at least one wholesaler, 900 baby Burms were released in S. Florida when Andrew hit. That's enough to start a population, all pretty much genetically related from similar clutches.

Sure. And that may well be where a lot of the current population came from.

Incidentally, I found that date about when the first burm was caught in the Glades. It was caught in 1979. That's a loooooong time ago!

Another question occurs to me: if there were already so many morphs and hets on the market in the early 90s, why would the burms from the wholesaler not include hets as well?
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (TBA)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (TBA)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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