It means more to me than you may realize in knowing that I have the kind of support I do from my friends on this forum. I have also received dozens of emails and phone calls from others over the past week; all with similar remarks and words of encouragement. I guess the reason I have felt it important to share is that this has been a difficult decision for me, something a few of you know I have been battling with over the past few years. The support I have has certainly made the decision a lot easier. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with all of the sinaloan/nelson's mutations for several years and it goes without saying that they have always been very special to me.

Yes, the shrinking of the collection to spend more time with the family is definitely one reason but the excitement of producing the morphs has simply, gone away. The many of you who follow my herping adventures know, I am and have always been a desert loving kind of guy. My ultimate plan is to make it seen through my personal collection as well, with the keeping of mostly montane and desert dwelling snakes from the Southwest and Mexico.

The time will come when all of the mutations will be gone, the collection will eventually be refined with more natural and just as beautiful species and I will be back in the field doing what I do best. So like I have mentioned before, I won't be going anywhere and plan to stick around with you guys for a very, very long time.

Kind regards,
Nathan Wells

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