I have a pair collected as juvenals from Miami Co. They're about six years old now and bred last year. I kept the lightest one to see what she looks like when she colors up. That's a few years away. Her pic is attached. The adult male is classic yellow rat with a bit of pattern remaining, barely noticeable. The adult female is lemon yellow with reduced lines.

I prefer wild type animals for my collection but I've observed that snake-nervous persons from general audiences will often relax around certain morphs, like albinos, perhaps because the morphs seem more "domesticated". After apprehensive newcomers explore a snake through an encounter with a morph, they sometimes develop an appreciation for snakes which might not have happened but for their encounter with a selectively bred animal to ease them into it. Morphs definitely have a place in herpetoculture and reptile public relations.

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