You may think I am smoking something--but I think by looking at the pattern of the snake you posted it looks to me to have either obsoleta of emoryi in it. Keep in mind this is only based on what people are calling frosted corns or creamsicle corns. I do agree with you in the sense that if you like it then who really cares...I do keep hybrids and I also keep what I believe to be pure corns. I must say this has been interesting discussing this with you--I always enjoy hearing what other people have to think. I still believe that most patterns and color morphs come from pure lines--I think in the wild these snakes don't stand a very good chance to live since they would stand out to predators--it has only been in captivity that we really have been able to exploit their genetic diversity. This has been proven with the pattern and color morphs of Ball pythons and there are now two new morphs of Blackhead pythons--albino and hypo as well as many other types of snakes so why would the cornsnake be any different? I do acknowledge the existence of natural hybrids in the field but I don't think they play too much of a role in what we see today in the cornsnake market.

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