I have been reading though the Name Game debates for Hypo Snows and most of what I have read seems rather childish. I have always thought that the person who first develops a morph should have a say in naming the morphs, but is that their right? What if the name they decide upon is really stupid! Usage, acceptance and time tested seems to be the deciding factor. We don’t even know what an adult looks like. Is the phenotype of a Hypo Snow so obvious that we know we have one? Could they be a variation of a Snow? Where are the Snows in these clutches?

Snow is time tested and so is Hypo, so we do know they are Hypo Snows. Why is it necessary to name a new morph so quickly? Throw some possible names out there and talk about if for awhile. I personally think that SnowGlow sounds pretty bad. It seems to be an attempt to combine Snow with Sunglow. Wouldn’t they actually be AneryGlows? Or Ghost Amels (Ghost Albinos or Albino Ghosts). I personally think that MoonGlow is more in line with the SunGlow theme, but there are many other possibilities as well. MoonGlow seems to have some meaning and gives you an idea of what the phenotype looks like before you see one, but SnowGlow falls short if you ask me. What is a Snow glow anyway? Does Snow glow? Somebody that doesn’t even own a boa may come up with the perfect name, that the majority thinks is very fitting.

I don’t know either party involved in this Name Game debate. Who was really first? I don’t see how a still born or even one that is born alive and then dies, has any credibility for creating a morph. The morph needs to be viable and then reproduce itself or at least grow up so we can see what the adult phenotype looks like. The dead one surely won‘t grow up or even go through a shed or two. I would like to see them proven to actually be Hypo Snows. With a little age, it may be that obvious.

We all would agree that Hypo Amel Anery won’t work, but Hypo Snow will for awhile. For all we know, the live one may not eat and therefore not be viable either. I hope it eats like a pig and grows quickly, but it seems to me that trying to take credit for a morph that is not viable is like trying to take credit for an invention that doesn’t work. Possible het this and possible het that. Good grief, they are possibly het for Hypo or which ever gene they are not homo for. I actually like referring to a Morph as het for the Morph it can create, but that is not really what they are het for. An Amel (Albino) is het for Anery not Snow, but enough time has gone by that we know what they mean. Trying to say something is het for MoonGlow or SnowGlow is very premature in my opinion.
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Joe Pierce
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