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Posted by: JKruse at Wed Jun 18 00:52:28 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JKruse ] I worked extensively with campbelli back in the 90's and had some really great lines of them to boot. The variations are great, from the corals to the oranges back in the day, to the wide-white banded to the sockheads, to the Halloweens to the oreos, etc etc etc. I've never experienced another snake having SO many non-recessive mutations that could be reproduced and modified with selective breeding. Sure the hypos and albinos and so on are nice with some milks (for some anyway), but the campbellis in my opinion are quite unique and carry varying phenotypcial appearance to please the masses. Not to mention they carry the ability to triple clutch in a single season, are manageable in size and demeanor, and are an all-around wonderful triangulum to keep and breed. Having said that, my first experience with hybridization came back in 1996 when a VERY prominent milksnake breeder offered a premium to me for the purchase of my Dave Blody orange Pueblan milks that, at the time, were the Maybachs of the Pueblan world. These were to be hybridized with the flavor of the times: the almighty albino ruthveni. Although the dollar amount was significant, i could not help but think of the INTEGRITY of the snakes. I turned this gentleman down several times advocating for what I thought was best BOTH for the integrity of the species and then the good of the hobby as a whole. About two years later i saw what became an "albino alterna" a la ruthveni influence. The nausea of it all..... [ Hide Replies ]
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