And I copied this post to other forums to get a variety of opinions.

"Popularity" or what is popular is subjective.

Go to a large Reptile show like Daytona or Anahiem and see what people are buying. You will see the morphs are. Normal examples are nice but most are not worth the cost of raising and breeding to make even enough profit to cover costs of maintenance much less spend money on being a vendor at a reptile show or spending money to place an ad on the classifieds..

I think on this forums you will find that most prefer the normal representations and not the morphs. But these are also $25-$50. snakes and most anyone can afford that.

Also i am sure there are more normal Ball pythons, kingsnakes, cornsakes out there than any morph. So common sense will tell you soemone is buying them so that makes them MORE popular. It is saturation of the marketplace.

Then there are the rare snakes that are not morphs but may be a locality that is har to get or something like Calif Mountain kingsnakes (which are illegal to collect and take out of Calif). These are te rare snakes and people that can afford them will also pay a premium price for them just as the morphs.
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