Hi.

I'm new to the complex world of colubrid morphs, and am trying to figure out what the best color variation would be for what I am looking for. I am trying to find an all-white kingsnake, and am getting turned around in circles with all of the different morph/breeder terms -- albino banana phase, high-white, blizzard, etc.

I've been told contradicting things by a few breeders I've spoken to, and am not sure if this is because they are looking to make a sale on the morphs they breed, or if it is genuinely that the terms are very "user specific", with different breeding groups drawing from different lexicons. I get that there is a complex set of genetic study going on in the high-end breeding culture here, and that's sort of where I get lost.

So basically I'm asking for help trying to sort through this.

Suggestions on what direction I should take? Clarification of terms? Or even just a basic description of the ones most likely to fit the bill for what I'm looking for? (I'd like to hear physical descriptions of what the morphs look like as younglings vs adults, etc) All of the information I've found so far on the internet seems to assume a great deal of knowledge going in, which I don't have. I'm great with the care and husbandry side of herp stuff, but this is an end of the field I've never played on.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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