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Posted by: foxturtle at Sat Feb 16 13:52:22 2013   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by foxturtle ]  
   

A blaze phase goini is as much a goini as anything else in the general pet trade today. I take the “innocent until proven guilty” approach. No one has brought any compelling evidence that they contain floridana influence. We don’t have a solid lineage for them, but we don’t really have a solid lineage for most of what gets bred. Most keepers aren’t worried about lineage, so the information is rarely retained when animals change hands. Even then, like a game of telephone, facts get misquoted and the info gets botched. I’ve seen it many times.

Goini in the pet trade are not the same snakes we see in the wild today. For decades “goini” has been used as a catch all trait for all Apalachicola type kingsnakes. They are cranked out in big numbers for the pet trade by commercial breeding facilities. They’ve been selectively bred for the cleanest banding (think less black stipling) and the reddest coloration. They are an amalgam of different localities that today might either be considered intergrades, or pure “meansi”.They are a domesticated snake, just like most other snakes that are heavily bred in the pet trade.

I guess my point is that we can’t hold the same standard for pet trade/generic lines that we do for locality lines. They serve different roles in the hobby. Known-lineage/locality is still a niche interest.
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