The genes might be there and theoreticly anything is possible. You could spend ten years getting the cal king pattern only to find that you have lost the cal king body size or head shape in that offshoot. It would be very hard to get everthing right to where it would consistently produce each and every trait of a particular subspecies in the same snake, with no traces of other traits.

It would be much easier to just start with pure subspecies, keep records and every 10 years or so add a pure wildcaught to your genepool.

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• Thought exercise - Tony D, Mon Jan 14 20:36:31 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - Patton, Mon Jan 14 21:00:36 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - Patton, Mon Jan 14 21:01:31 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - EddieF, Mon Jan 14 21:06:32 2008
• LOL!! - DMong, Mon Jan 14 21:41:14 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - antelope, Mon Jan 14 23:25:37 2008
• A major leap.... - elaphopeltishow, Tue Jan 15 08:53:03 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - FR, Tue Jan 15 09:40:21 2008
• Great followup! more on coastals,long - Jeff Schofield, Tue Jan 15 11:08:02 2008
• RE: Great followup! more on coastals,long - Tony D, Tue Jan 15 12:35:50 2008
• I agree - Jeff Schofield, Tue Jan 15 12:55:00 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - DMong, Tue Jan 15 11:52:09 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - Tony D, Tue Jan 15 12:08:07 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - thomas davis, Tue Jan 15 13:40:58 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - CrimsonKing, Tue Jan 15 14:11:07 2008
• Outer banks.......... - Jeff Schofield, Tue Jan 15 11:14:50 2008
• RE: Thought exercise - Aaron, Tue Jan 15 12:18:27 2008