My view is limited because I didn't become even remotely aware of captive reptile breeding until the late 80's early 90's. However, I get the impression there wasn't much of it being done. Apart from a few corn snake keepers and a very few python people like Bob Clark I think the albino Burmese pythons MADE the python market.

Even when they fell to $1,000 each that was a good incentive for lots of people (me included) to become interested in figuring out how to breed pythons. I really don't think het and morph Burmese had a huge number of normals to replace in the mid 80's. The capitalist system worked wonders for meeting the new demand for python morphs and the morphs and hets where quickly produced and quickly became the standard. The falling prices of Burmese python morphs is a good testament to how quickly they where produced in numbers.

Other than imports (which I still don't understand how there could have been much market for) it seems quite plausible to me that morphs and their hets (or at least possible hets) dominated captive production by 1990.

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