I know different strokes for different folks, and I know that some morphs can produce snakes that boggle the mind, as do some hybrids, but for the life of me, I can't understand what the fascination is with bringing out a new morph, any morphs to the snakes we work with on this forum. I am not against it, I understand how exciting it can be to work with animals that throw morphs, but a black thayeri is just a color patterning in my book, like an MBK is to a splendida/holbrooki. What's all the fuss about bringing out an amel thayeri? Seriously? More than likely they appear in the wild, we will not know any time soon. I can see the stripe thing as exciting because I know that striped forms in some animals are not the norm, but not only possible, but happens more than infrequently. And as far as inbreeding, what other genes are we bringing forth? Could these other genes bring forth other peculiarities that are not the norm? Head patterns that do not line up with what is normally known? Of course! I am playing Devil's advocate on this one, I know that only a hand full of us have ever seen any of these animals in the wild, not me for sure, but even those have seen very little, so the pool to draw on is minuscule. Even if we own animals born from wild caught parent(s),we cannot know everything and put it on that neat little shelf! From one mountain to the next you are going to get some variation, and some are extreme! If these animals all came from a common ancestor, what's the beef? LOL, line breeding may eventually pop out something that resembles them all! I suspect the weirdest stuff may come from the newest animals put into the hobby, better than a fair chance...we should at least see some subtle and hopefully beautiful differences.
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Todd Hughes

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