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I recently picked up the 2010 edition of designer morphs and am loving it but now I'de like to pick up one of the books on breeding BP's and preferebly one that tells you how to better care for them and what signs to look for what illnesses. Is there a book that complete? Would I be better off with the VPI one or the NERD one?

I...and I usually stand alone on this one.....
recommend you go buy Richard Ross' Keeping and Breeding Boas and Pythons ...they make paperbound editions and it should cost that much anymore...it's an 'older' book....read it , then read it again right away.....

....there are books on reptile diseases....a multi part book (series) even...some are very good....I don't know which is best....

most books written in the last few years are just re-regurgitated stuff from older books people read before they actually started writing their own book......(yes ,even if they "lived" the facts afterwards)....

...good luck...and I personally buy all the books I can ...I even read most of them...........

there are good books from Barker....I foeget which it is....I think it's actually the Australian Python one that I like the most?...been awhile since I read any of them....

...good luck........

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I bought the Ross/Marzec book way before the other two came out, and it focuses on (as the title suggests) reproductive husbandry, but it is not BP-specific and Ross is actually a medical doctor and Stanford professor so the text gets technical at times. The McCurley book is more experience-based, practical in its orientation, and exclusively focused on BPs. The BP book by the Barkers strikes a nice balance between the other two -- written by trained biologists who happen also to be among the premier BP breeders. I thought (apparently incorrectly) that Designer Morph was just a picture book, so I never bought that one, and can't compare it to the other three.

I bought the first Designer Morphs book by John Berry and felt if was much more a "picture book" rather than a how-to book. Don't know if his new book is the same.

it's thh same. very handy when not near a computer to try to get others around me to understand why I'm so captivated by these beautiful creatures. He just updated the morph list and pics but nothing on breeding really