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I was just wondering if any of you do any normalxnormal breedings that are not project that looks like on of the snakes may have somthing going on. I have to admit I don't unless I have extras that don't have morph mates.

I will tell you any dinker is a normal untill you prove out its genetics to be something other than "wild type"... that being said I did "normal" aka "sunrise project" again this year to normal for the second year hoping for better results VIA recessive lineage although the babies look different. I'm willing to gamble and bet A LOT of breeders did "dinker" aka fancy normal to mormal this year. But not a lot of breeders go wild type to wilde type if that makes scense??
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Brian Hettinger
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It makes perfect sense I was thinking "wild type" when I posted

Other than trying to prove a new recessive morph I don't think too many people breed normals to sell. With captive hatched babies being very cheap and not difficult to get and for the most part healthy, there certainly isn't any money in breeding normals.

However I think we are at the point where more normal captive bred and hatched babies would be a good idea. Thousands and thousands of captive hatched babies are imported from Africa...to the point the collectors have learned to single out any unusual babies to sell at a higher price, knowing the morph demands of breeders hoping to get that special 'new' morph from a captive hatched animal. It makes me wonder if the last 10-20 years of mass collected eggs hatched in pits and sold in bulk to collectors around the world, will have a impact on the wild populations in the years to come. Eventually there will be a 'generation gap' which may impact numbers of ball pythons in the wild...once the large adults die off due to age etc. and are not replaced by young reaching sexual maturity. I may be worrying about nothing...but it does make me wonder if the heavy collection of the last couple decades will impact wild populations in the decades to come.

As beautiful as many morphs are, most don't compare to what a good looking normal looks like.
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PHLdyPayne

When does it come to a point where normals are harder to come by than morphs and if captive breed is a way to restock the wild someday will there be any that will be able to survive without their camouflage because there are no wild types left