I too understand it can be a new blood line. My response to the original post below clearly states that. I understand both sides and somehow ruffled some feathers it seems.

My main concern is renaming morphs prior to breeding them with their possible predecessors that do show strong visual similarities. Patience and breeding trials to prove these possible new morphs out has gone by the way side for a lot of breeders. Look at BELs; how many morphs with different names can produce them? To the normal eye (like mine) how do you tell what gene(s) were used to produce a white snake with blue or black eyes. I've been breeding Balls for a long time and I can't tell. Just think if every Yellow Belly or Pastel that came in to the country had a different name?

I feel renaming has been done far too many times in the past and will continue. The end result is very confusing to someone new wanting to breed Ball Pythons.

It feels like one breeder just trying to top another at times.

We have many great breeders in this industry/hobby that have produced the "first" in this business and been deprived by others greed trying to be the next big name breeder. The almighty dollar and popularity contest have created many egos to over inflate. I have made a very good living for many years breeding snakes. When I'm ask what I do for a living my response is "I clean snake s^%t" hey it's the truth We are an extremely small fish (snake breeders) in a very large pond.

""Famous"" we are not.

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