Seriously, I have a friend who lives in an area where the petshops pay her $20 for normal hatchlings and almost always have a need for more, and yet she would have an exceedingly difficult time selling lavenders. Heck, she's even asked to buy hatchlings off of me to resell to those stores.



Just because in general the cornsnake market is flooded does not mean that all areas are swamped with hatchlings.



I honestly don't believe that the only reason to breed corns is to produce new morphs. Breeding can be done just for the enjoyment of seeing those cute little noses peek out of the eggshells. Or perhaps the person is breeding them mostly for feeders. Or maybe they're planning on selling every snake they hatch. So what?



Producing high dollar morphs doesn't make anyone 'elite', and producing low-end morphs doesn't make someone any less of a snake-lover. There's nothing wrong with '$5 amels'.



If you want to get philisophical, encouraging people to only breed the high-end morphs will cause an increase in the number of high-end morph corns available, which will cause the value of high-end morphs to drop. Pretty soon those former high-end morphs will be available for the same price as normals, amels, hypos, etc. as a result.



IMO, people should breed whatever they feel like breeding. If they want to breed hypos, let them breed hypos. If they'd rather breed lavs, then let them breed lavs. Trying to induce scaricity by implying that those that contribute to the abundance of availability are somehow not as ethical as those that refrain from it seems to me to be an inappropriate tactic.



-Kat
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"

"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

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