This isn't actually specific to ATBs, but they're a prime example so I figured I'd ask people here...

Let's take, for example here, a group of baby ATBs. You really, really dig the solid orange ones so you hold a pair back and breed a pair, choosing the best, most solid colored ones you get in your clutches--cream of the crop from that color phase. Repeat 2-3-4 times maybe.

Now, would the *other* color phases also be nicer? Like would you yellows and gardens look better than average too? Or would it really only impact the other orange phase snakes (assuming 2-3 generations here of selective breeding)? Would you start getting more of that color phase per litter, and would the other members of that litter still look better than a run of the mill ATBs?
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