There definitely aren't the number of gene's to play with like some other snakes, rtb's, corn snakes and especially ball pythons (over 1,000 known morphs and designer morphs documented this past summer, with new ones coming out almost constantly) and I love the idea of mixing genetics, that's the only reason I began keeping a small number of bp's. I think there may be a small flaw in your thinking about stripping something down to a snow and then trying to add things back though. Talking of only color changing genes, not patterns... Once you hit a snow, amel x anery, you're pretty much wiping out all the color genes. Anything else you add would most likely not change the appearance, because if you have one gene creating the snow already telling it "none of x color", it's going to most likely cancel out adding in another gene that is telling it "give it a splash of x color". There may be some gene's that can still be worked in to tweak coloring a little, but I would expect them to be extremely subtle. Getting to a snow isn't like erasing a chalk board so you can build from ground zero adding in colors you want, it's more of filtering all the colors from visibilty so that we just don't see them still there, and really the only way to add coloring back in smaller amounts is going to be to remove one of those filters with a less restrictive one.

I do think that some of the morphs like the candy cane and wipeout will end up becoming some of the most desired because they'll be versatile enough to mix and still create new looks, no matter the color gene combination.

Have a great weekend!
Charlie

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