Nice observation, Ross! No, I've never seen a straight striped nitida in the wild. I very seriously doubt there is lol!!! Those straight striped snakes were breed into nice striped CA Kings long ago to make them more desirable because the wavy/messy pattern were just to ugly to many.

Unfortunately, like many have brought up, many of the snakes (Like the rarer locale or morphs from Mexico and Baja) are not correctly represented anymore. Very few guys have the real stuff anymore and it's kept under lock and key with them and a few die hards that have personal hands on field experience with an area or morph cause they understand it and the animal. If you know you have the real deal theres one thing you don't want and that's a questionable animal thrown into the mix. You can still find the origional stuff and acquire it, you just have to do the research and trace the original lines back.

Most guys have no idea there their stock is a mixed up mess and it's not there fault. There's so much mixed up junk out there now it's hard to kept track of what is pure and what is not. Each generation gets worse and there's not really nothing that can be done about. What irks me are the guys that knowingly have the "crap" and advertise it as "real" That's why there's so much of the bogus stuff out their because of guys like that. Then you have the guys that realize they bought "crap" and try to get their money back buy selling the now realized "crap" as real. If you want the real deal make sure you get a 100% trace to the collector or go get it yourself. It sucks but that's the only way to be sure anymore with allot of the stuff out there. Especially from Mexico and Baja.

PL

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