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The original question I posed kind of digressed, so I will try to narrow it down a little. I see a lot of folks in here who are doing locality specific work with GBKs, yet I rarely see the fruits of their labor in the classifieds. Is this due to swapping and selling amongst each other, holding back and line breeding or just selling through other avenues. I have a "generic" pair of Gray bands and a sibling River Road pair and I am interested in going the locale-specific route. That being said I have notice a lack of availability and more wanted ads than you find in other species. A couple of the tongue-in-cheek answers gave a little insight, but I was just wondering if anyone has anything really concrete they see as a reason. Hopefully when I get back from Germany I can finally make a trip to West Texas and check out some of these areas...

Thanks

Bill
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WJS Herps
Brooksville, Fl
Bill & Jennifer Smoot

Yes alot of alterna people know what everybody else has already
and make personal calls or emails to those people to make trades or purchase them. Many are pre sold way before clutches are even laid. Unfortunately sometimes theres alot of infertile
eggs laid and there goes a years worth of work or years of raising that female only to have to wait another year to breed again. Also if you don't have alot of experience with raising hatchling alterna many will die even for the best alterna breeders. There also alot of baby alterna that die in the egg
full term trying to slit the egg and are unable to slit it and sufficate in the egg.
I hope this info helps.
KC

Yep, that answers a lot. I have a lot of similar experience in my dealings with green tree pythons.

Thanks!
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WJS Herps
Brooksville, Fl
Bill & Jennifer Smoot