Hey Fred. Thanks for the good words. Actually, I just thought of this, when I get the cribo, I will be posting numerous detailed photos in hopes that someone can positively identify him. He was sold to Mr. Siegel as melanurus, but he very much appears to be unicolor, even to my untrained eyes. The ad is currently still up, so if you or anyone else sees this and wants to take a look to give me your opinions sooner than when I post pictures, here it is: http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=6&de=279266 .

As for the hydridization thing, I have noticed exactly what you mean here. I can't say that I don't enjoy the look of certain hybrids ('carpondros' and especially 'bateaters' for example), and I certainly do enjoy my retic python morphs, though they are not hybrids, but the buck absolutely stops at potentially or critically endangered species for me. I cringe even when I hear people just joking about crossing an indigo with a Pit, or for that matter, a ball python with an Angolan python. I think hybrids have their place in the hobby as occasional odditities just to keep things interesting, but only, and absolutely only, when they involve species that are very commonly bred in captivity and are under very little or no threat in their natural environments. Anyway, that's a whole other conversation for a whole other matter

I hope that ad is still up long enough for some of you guys to take a look. I'd like to hear some preliminary thoughts on him.
-Chance
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Chance Duncan
2.2 Retics (1.0 Tiger Het, 1.0 Lavender, 0.1 Dark Lavender, 0.1 Normal Het)
1.1 Olive Pythons
1.1 Ball Pythons (Het Albino)
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• Finally taking the plunge... - Chance, Fri Jan 14 18:13:19 2005
• Hey Chance... - Doug T, Fri Jan 14 20:08:15 2005
• RE: Hey Doug - Chance, Sat Jan 15 01:06:06 2005
• "Welcome Chance................." - fred albury, Sat Jan 15 10:54:03 2005
• RE: "Welcome Chance................." - Chance, Sat Jan 15 12:38:36 2005
• RE: "Welcome Chance................." - Eric East, Sat Jan 15 17:52:11 2005
• RE: "Welcome Chance................." - dan felice, Sat Jan 15 18:11:34 2005
• Thats a nice looking Cribo......congrats are in order.... - fred albury, Sun Jan 16 01:02:45 2005
• Whew - Chance, Sun Jan 16 12:11:44 2005
• Chance. I agree, these guys are pretty cool . Real gentlemen... - BobS, Fri Jan 21 13:33:11 2005
• RE: Finally taking the plunge... - mrand, Sat Jan 15 23:01:31 2005
• RE: Finally taking the plunge... - Chance, Sun Jan 16 12:05:22 2005