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DMong
at Tue Jun 17 11:52:14 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Unlike some other milksnakes, Pueblans are usually prone to a dark pigment(melanin) suffusion, rather than actual scale "tipping" at the end of the scale. It gives the appearance of sort of an "over-spray" of dark spray paint. Many people in the hobby refer to this as "newspapering", because of it resembling newspaper print.
I don't really see the need to further hybridize it into an undescernible type of snake though, or ANY other type of snake for that matter......this is a fad that many seem to be compelled to do, because the ultimate outcome of this practice only helps destroy future lines of pure strain animals of ALL types that are in the hobby. This is something that many folks just don't understand,...or probably MORE importantly,...just don't care about in the least. This is sure to "back-fire" on the hobby itself, and affect everyone to a certain degree in the future.
You see, it's not really about "hating" hybrids because of what they might look like, or NOT look like,....but rather what ALL those HUGE numbers of hybrids that get produced get bred to down the line,....and so on, and so on, and so on..........
This is a "wheel" that hybrid breeders have gotten rolling, that will unfortunately never stop turning now.
This is something that really CANNOT be realistically argued with.
~Doug
~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"
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Pueblan darkening....... - DMong, Tue Jun 17 11:52:14 2008