I agree with you 110%
In nature it happens by natural selection or natural line breeding so to speak.
In our snake rooms it is selective propogation that causes these unseen pattern aberrancies to come to be.

Look at Thayeri for example....We now have in our hobby a rainbow of colors that could never have happened in the wild. Don't get me wrong, some W/C Thayeri are nice, but selective line breeding has gotten their Awesome colors to where they are today thanks to folks like Frank Retes, Tim Gebhart, Ric Blair and Dan Vermilya.....And now a few others are carrying it on with them......

Why do you think it is so hard for me to sale the best looking neonates from any breeding project....There may be something in there that would be missed if sold off to someone else that just wants one as a pet or breeds it to a "not so attractive" specimen.....

I think I will remain to be stingy with some.......LOL

John Lassiter

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