Kingsnake.com - Herpforum - RE: Muddy waters

Posted by: josephschmidt at Thu Jul 7 11:58:52 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by josephschmidt ]

First of all.. How many hognose do you keep and how many have you bred? How many pink pastels have you seen?
Second.. I've been busting my A.. working on these hognose morphs since 2003(especially the pinks)in a circle of my peers and fellow breeders I am quite respected as a responciple breeder..not much I could do to be looked down upon. Especially when anyone who knows me know what kind of dude I am.
Third...the rediculace price tag...?? PSHHH..Well since you know the Hognose market so well you definatly know that...Fresh from the egg a single het ppa female if $500 same with the extreme red hets. So is $2000 a rediculace price tag for an adult snake with both genetics? These are not $16.38 leopard geckos with 50,000 other breeders producing the same ol' junk for the past 30 years-?
(at least not yet)
What about hybinos in hognose? You can't decipher the double homo's because our hypos are actually t plus binos. BUT,,, when u breed pastel pinks into our hypos the double homo is a pink glows which has nothing muddy about it. It's a very easy to decipher crazy rare morph.
I could go on... Toffee x amel has been done by a ton of top breeders simply because we all think that the snake will look like the hybino but will be able to see the double homo due to the paradoxing from the toffees.
There is also double het caramel albino x albinos... Lavender x amel double hets out there now.
My point is this... How are we going to know what genes do what together unless we do the dam breeding?
I love this snake hommie and that's the beauty of being a hobbiest first and for most. This is a breedable animal and if I am going to let her go it will be for what I THINK she is worth not random people who see a price tag and drop 2 pennies of under developed knowledge about the subject.
This is an opportunity for someone to get something that there is literally only a small handful of that has potential to be something awesome and new.

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**Joe Schmidt-
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