I see your point about locality. I keep both locality and morphs. The thing about locality is there are differences

in the corns and other snakes in one place as opposed to another. North Florida corns are different from South Florida corns and these are different from Panhandle corns and from Keys corns and so on. Yes they travel and genes mix but over time and distance are diluted when mixed into the larger body of a locality group. This is natures way of outbreeding them without breeding them out of true to type for the most part. The relevance I see in keeping true localities would be to secure those genes in captivity as a safty net agains extinction of that type. Also to secure those new gens for breeding over to morphs to out breed and or get new morphs or variations of morphs.

Yes locality should be taken with a grain of salt perhaps, but still has merit and value. But then I see value in keeping corns either way.

Think of this. If you breed Keys corns to mainland corns the offspring will over time loose the Key corn look. Then they also start loosing some of the Key corn genes as well. Then to get that look again you have to go collect more Keys corns and start over agin. Better to keep some pure bloods then right? But then breeding some over to get morphs that look different is something I am interested in as well. So as I said I see the value in doing both. Corns I just love them all! LOL Eric

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