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RE: Question about Anery, & Axanthic Brooks

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Posted by: Bluerosy at Sat Feb 15 08:46:36 2014   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]  
   

I started an early interest in Florida king morphs when I moved east from Calif to the southeast in 1992.

Actually before there was any Florida morphs except the axanthic I was searching through breeders tables for the lihtest and nicest normal Florida brooksi. Found some from different breeders and raised them up and bred them to produce some of the sickest nicest ones ever.

This was before the hypo came along and back then nobody cared much about brooksi. I remember helping Lloyd Lemke at his table in Orlando Expo and he had a sub adult axanthic on his table for only $100. It sat there all weekened and he ended up taking it back home. This was about 1992. And he sold the crap out of other common snakes. Heck the axanthic was rare back then, but people just want what is popular and what they KNOW.

Then later when the hypomelanistic hit the market everyone had the "ultimate" yellow brooks king and boy did they sell like hot cakes at $700. each.

SO everybody dumped their projects with light colored beautiful normal. I held onto all of mine until about 1995 and then had to sell because the nice looking normals just did not sell. They just did not do anything for anybody. The new hypos were what everyone wanted.
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"I guess newbies cannot understand, those who build the foundation, are not the ones with great opportunity. Those who buy the latest generations, have the greatest opportunity to create new morphs. "

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