In many cases anything that is described as being a quality product has a high pricetag. You get what you pay for. Wether it's 25 dollar snakes or 2500 hundred dollar snakes judging by the appearance and health of a snake you should get an idea of who is in it for the money or not. Taking this back to the initial topic of this post, sometimes it seems like a new snake has been reproduced very quickly and suddenly many people have them. Then you [sometimes] see lethargic babies with lousy muscle tone and still they have the "new on the market" pricetag which is steep. Then people like myself wonder, was it due to inbreeding? Many people I know would assume it is, and other people have the opposite opinion. I guess it's luck of the draw. If the first albino of any given snake is weak.....then it could spawn a legion of weak offspring until it is outcrossed with a healthier mate. I would personally rather give my cash to someone who apparently has outcrossed their snakes when it comes to morphs. If it was not neccesary from the beginning with hatchlings from the first litters appearing perfectly healthy than great. However 1 snake I wanted from the get go was rumored "flawed", and now people who have outcrossed it claim the babies[being morphs] are as healthy or even more vigorous than the normals they work with. To sum it up, I am one of the people who believe with some snakes it matters a lot, and with others it matters very little. For example[example only!] I will say outcrossing is mandatory in kings but not milks. A few friends of mine have similar thoughts. To finish it up, I had inquired about buying a snake last week, a desert snake. I asked about bloodlines, the reply was something like " being concerned about bloodlines isn't too important when you're talking about desert snakes". Does it ever end? LOL Let's talk some more! Tom

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