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its hard to keep track
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jake

my addiction:
0.2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
0.1 amelenistic corn snake (maizy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
1.0 albino cal king (zeus)
0.0.1 wc garter (zim)
hybrid breeders association
hybrid haven

Dude, The year aint over yet!!
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http://www.jasballpythons.com./

Can anyone guess which one of these is in the process of being proven as we speak? LOL.

The 64 thousand dollar question is more like...

How many truely new genetic mutations have been found in the last couple years? Also, are they truely new, or just variations of the same or existing traits?

Interesting stuff.

For the last couple years anyhow, it seems that many of the truely unique new mutations have been discovered almost by accident, by someone breeding a curious, but not all that special looking animal then - Whamo! Out pops something totally unique...

As for truely new genetics from fresh imports, maybe people are keeping more hush-hush nowadays, but it seems like there have been less really new genetic animals in the past few years?

You gotta wonder if somethung as unique as say a Piebald will ever be found in the wild again? If everytime something that is even a little bit odd is discovered and it is then immediately removed from the wild, its gotta dilute the genetic diversity.

It seemed for a while way back, they where finding all kinds of cool and interesting new morphs, and I agree, I think in todays market, its better to keep things on the D.L., prove things out, make a bunch of what you have and then cash in by selling all your offspring at top dollar, it seems almost weekly the prices of more common morphs are dropping by $50-$100 a week to month it seems. I am sure there are MANY new morphs and combos we have yet to see, that people are keeping under raps, the combo possiblities are endless with all the varities we have now. But as far as new morphs off the farms in Africa....well I see a few every now and then come up for sale, but I think many people would rather invest thier hard earned money on something that is proven, rather than spend two to three times that on a gamble...

Interesting topic though...
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Executive Reptiles
Amanda Kingsbury & David Kendrick
www.executivereptiles.com

Once you discover more than half of the ball python morphs in Africa the number of available undiscovered morphs will begin to decrease with each new discovery. You will have less and less undiscovered morphs with each new discovery. Think about it this way...you like chex mix but your favorite part is the peanuts. You eat all the peanuts first before the rest of the mix. How difficult is it to find the last few peanuts? At the current point we are searching for the last few "peanuts" in Africa. The morphs we currently have most likely existed in Africa for thousands, probably tens of thousands of years. We will undoubtedly discover some precious few new morphs. There is also the slight chance potential of a new morph mutation occuring. I love the hobby.

Brad Ratliff
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Brad Ratliff
Ratliff Reptiles
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Evolution at work whether we realize it or not,
Ther once was a man called Newton who said for every action theres an equal or opposite reaction

Action = Remove Large Chunk of Genetic Variables from Wild

Equal Opposite Reaction = Genetic Variation of Wild Population Decreases by Large Chunk

Newton was correct

Human TransContinental distribution.thats a good thing