"They are at least $250 snakes now due to their recent rarity..."



Yep, it is very similar to L.t.abnorma being available many years ago. I bought an authentic pair back in the mid 90's for just $125 bucks. But they disappeared for very different reasons is all. The abnorma disappeared because VERY FEW people know the real differences between hodurensis, polyzona, abnorma, stuarti and oligozona, as well as their natural ranges and they all got blended into the already very mixed up hobby Hondo "melting pot" stew that we have today. Heck,it's been that way for well over three decades with the various Latin milks.



Do you think the melanistic thayeri thing is because in more recent years far more people were striving for insane oranges, and every other kind of thayeri phenotype, and the melanistics just "seemed" like another typical "black snake" to the casual hobbyists?. This is very likely don't you think?, or maybe at least part of the reason for it.





~Doug





~Doug
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