Peter,



The albino lavender brooksi kings have been accepeted into the hobby as pure by 99.99% of the people associated with them. It is a summarization of the original breeders that they did breed calif kings into them. You have people selling "albino brooksi" at shows, magazines ads, internet ect. They are even accepeted as pure into many books. So why should one person who thinks they are crossed advertise them as such? It will only send some people over to those that advertise them as pure. Most people today are either ill informed or just going with the flow. I think that a lot of breeders know but want to stick their head in the sand (hear no eveil speak no evil type of thing) You have to remember the lavender brooksi kings have been around for over ten years and have been accepted as pure by herpetoculturists.



Now my approach is that the back breeding of livestock is done a few times and dna cannot determine that they are hybridized and genetesists anyway. Even though we know that a snake may have 2% calif king it does not disprove the genetic makeup of the snake. Sure it does not change it purity but then again we get into what is pure and what is not. Nature provides hybridization and the wc snakes one finds may be more hybridized than these back bred lav brooks kings that WE KNOW have at least been bred back to a certain founding breeder..



Also other morphs like the hondurans, nelsoni ect ect ect have been created by unscrupulous breeders that had closet hybrid fancy going on while touting the purity of their animals. After back breeding they came out one day with a new morph. That the sad reality of it but it does not bother me in the least because what we end up with is an animal that has had a lot of work put into it rather than someone who just lucks out on breeding w/c or finds one out in the wild. Thats just plain luck. ha ha!



Now before you get your feathers all ruffled remeber that I am a field collector first. I have many years and appreciate the things we find in the wild. There are a lot of breeders in the hobby today that could find a snake if it bit them on the A$$. When I have found certain species i did a crazy dance and screammed at the top of my lungs (one fond memeroy like that especially comes to mind) and I hope their will be others. I also like breeding oocaily pure animals. Its not that I am on the other side of the coin. I just like both sides.



Call me crazy Peter. Thats okay!

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