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Haven't kept up with the morphs lately. My collection of corns is soley bloodreds and anery bloodreds.

What's the hottest morph with potential? Yeah, I may be looking to add to my collection in the future.
FH

Combinations of the new morphs are in right now.
Ultramel, Cinder, Opal, etc., when crossed are creating new morphs. Striped anything seems to be going well, and patterns like sunkissed mixed into other morphs are big as well.
Not many people are making money on new stuff as much as volume. I personally think the way to go is pick your favorites(how, I dunno)and work on making them better.
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V.P.
Austin Herp. Soc.

with corns there isnt a "hot" morphlikewith balls.

besides, if you buy it becuase its hot, in a few years it wont be hot any more.

buy what you like
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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

I gotta agree with you Jake, the corn market is pretty saturated. There's a number of people intently pursuing making the first "sunglow" desert king and "pearl" Hondurans, as well as the many new ball python morphs.

I think one of the trends with morphs, is once there's a certain number of them, a loss of color is the only thing left that's "new." This takes away from a reason corn snakes are so popular to begin with - they're naturally orange and red.

This is the first year I've had more pine, king and milk snake inquiries on availability than inquiries on corns. It seems I cannot make enough black pines and kings!

Even this forum is slow compared to previous years, while the Ball Python, Milk and King forums have at least three to four times the number of posts per day.

Having said all that, the "Golden Corn" would seem to have the most potential as a breeding project that could rejuvenate the corn snake market.

Tim

Third Eye

OK, now that I got ya here, I have to agree. More adult corns just dropped off at the shop this year than ever. Some very nice ones too. A pink coral for example, the girl working there bought that day.

Our market is far different than the web. Pines and gophers lag in sales compared to teh web. Also dumeril boas for example. We sat on an adult female for 2 years. She ate more than I sold her for.

Corns are such nice snakes I think they will always be the newbies snake. But I think the market as a whole swings like a pendulum. One we don't get to see. With a mss group of entire level people they will gravitate to corns. But then get a little bored and do the "reptile rotation", (I coined it, it's mine! lol),, then move on to a redtail boa or like Tim is seeing a move to pines, nice gophers, hondos et al.

It would be nice to see full market research across the nation. KS may be the only place with enough info to make such a piece of work.

So breeders doing it for the money spectulate where the next move is and try to be there first. Others have a diversified portfolio of breeders. Break even on some and make money on others.

Me I just keep what I like. I have my bloodred. Wish I had my crimson that passed. But I have some transpecos rat snake I caught in Texas coming up soon. I was amazed by how calm they were. Also a few long nose. They did not excite me much, but a cool snake. Time will tell about boredom.

wu wei
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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom

www.herpzilla.com

Thanks everybody for the reply. I agree that keeping what you like is best! I was just curious as to what's going on in corn morphs these days.

Best Regards,
Frank Hayden