Thanks for the compliment. Another point I'd like to throw in is, some of the corn snake morphs we have now are from animals people have found in pet stores! And Ambers still look the same when they come out of het breedings in later generations. And from what I'm seeing, the stillwater hypo gene still looks pretty much the same in successive generations. So really it is to each their own. But the babies I see in an above post are no different than the batch Ben Rogers is now selling. So for me it's like the amber gene in corn snakes, it's a genetic color morph. So for me personally, keeping the line pure is nice but...not something I'm going to stand firm on with no distinct locality for Stillwaters that they are isolated from other populations of bullsnakes. Such as say New Jersey Northern Pines are isolated from Alabama Pines. There is no cross over. Seperate populations thus are to me more important to get all excited about rather than oh, a morph popped up and we don't know the exact locality.



But yes, please understand me, I do understand the desire of some to keep the line pure to the original adults. More power to you folks and I can indeed appreciate this effort. And I look forward to adding a pair of pure to line Stillwater Bulls to my collection in the future!

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