Doug, in '95 there were no MORPHS. There were plenty of us NA milk guys breeding tricolors...and they were everywhere. Guys like Shannon Brown had a bunch. Calvert produced the first (and only since the anery never took off)Coastal plains morph.It was first Albino then HYPO....even though I now consider it a LAV albino/T Positive. Carl Bartlett bred em, and guys like Wally Broda, Walt Deptula, Bob Deptula,Joe Hughes,Brad,Ted T.,Tony, myself and others each had distinct lines of locality coastals. There were St Marys, Calvert, NC, NJ every county was different--- I even found the only record in Charles county,MD. They were RARE on the eastern shore til Carl went down and found like 5 in a weekend when there were only 1-2 records. Chuck the snake man was in his glory, he had the best WC collection anyone has ever seen.

Before kingsnake.com we worked on our own network. We

trusted each other, we worked off word of mouth. "Pics" were a expensive and unecessary bit. We all had every book, when asked what something looked like you would say "Markels book pg 49 only deeper blotches and more maroon color".

Doug, there were 20x more Calvert co Md Coastals around in 95 than now. There were alot more NA milks and alot less Central American variants. Moreover, most every coastal around now is likely related to every other one. What can be done? We're doin it.

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