Yeah, no doubt any given snakes in the entire general area there can(and do) have considerably varying phenotypes. This would certainly also depend greatly on the different percentage possibilities of either subspecies influence in any given individual snake pairing's genetic makeup. There are many snakes in that area with more Eastern phenotypes and others with more standard peninsular Florida king phenotypes. As you said, any given offspring from any of the clutches could look very different from one another and also go on to produce very different looking phenotypes themselves. some looking much more desirable than others would.



The snakes that tended to display closer to a 50-50 ratio of each type would be the most prized and sought after, but I am very sure these would also be fewer and far between than many others from the general area too. I would bet the originator of Suwannee Reptiles bred these more uncommon types together, or even possibly selectively picked a few babies from some clutches of maybe not so great looking one's together that DID display more of the 50-50 look he was striving for to perpetuate these more desired phenotypes.





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