That's right Amanda. Although I certainly have a few morphs of many different types, I have also always appreciated many normal wild phenotypes and their natural history, identification and meristics as much as anyone I know. To me, it isn't always about breeding the craziest looking offspring possible. Normal, and/or locality snake variations are extremely interesting too.



Just for one example, a couple years ago, I acquired a nice pair of Florida kingsnake's to breed only because they were NOT het for any weird morph(which seems to be the major craze today), but rather just super-nice old-school southern Miami/Dade county high-yellow "brooksi" floridana. As a matter of fact, many people have been practically beating my door down to get their hands on some of these awesome beauties, and they are already spoken for well into the next 2011 season. I have been diligently growing up some exceptional hold-backs from this past year in hopes of keeping up with their demand in the future.



The same goes for normal phenotype Outer Banks kings, Everglades Ratsnakes, locality corns, etc.. I think it is very important to conserve the natural subspecific integrity of many snakes, aside from there being many morphs bred and available.





~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"



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