morphs you dont get

[Louie]

i dont understand the difference between a cinnamon ball or a congo ball and a normal one. they look the same! there is one that I would like however and that is the paradox albino. I have worked with one at ophiological services and it is beautiful!

Oh yes that is beautiful

 

[Louie]

Here is a nice still water hypo bull next to a normal. I can get hypos. There are some others like yellow belly balls and spot nose that look normal to me.

Nice you can see the difference. What type tempermeant do bulls overall have ?.

 

[Louie]

i get why people buy some morphs. albinos and such


but there are some i just dont understand.

there are some leo morphs i just dont understand. and the same with BP. people get way to carried away lol.

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What is good IMO about albino or any snake with lots of white is that as an old adult they still hold their color. They don't become "dull color".

I have reg color ruthvens who after yrs you can tell not as bright. While this old male still "holds his color".

There are lots snakes which normal color looks much nicer than albino or any morph .

 

[dougefresh]

Yeah I think some of the morphs are a little overkill. I like a lot of em don't get me wrong, but some of them like others have said are so similar to regulars, why pay so much more? I guess I don't understand why I would get a cinnamon, pastel, axanthic, or fire balls when I could just purchase a regular and just have so slight of a color variation in almost the exact same snake. Just my $0.02.

 

[Rass]

The only reason to pay more for some of these normal looking morphs, as someone already stated, is for breeding purposes and to create new morphs etc. Sometimes your paying for the snake's potential output of hatchlings, not necessarily the snake itself.

 

[01C5Vert]

The only reason to pay more for some of these normal looking morphs, as someone already stated, is for breeding purposes and to create new morphs etc. Sometimes your paying for the snake's potential output of hatchlings, not necessarily the snake itself.

That may be true for some snakes that are hetero for certian traits, such as ablinism, but a normal lookng morph will just give you normal looking babies.

 

[Rass]

Right but if it is het for something it means that under the right circumstances, or the right mate, that animal or it's offspring have the potential to produce something special. Being het doesn't always mean it gives all normal looking babies in a clutch. It depends on what you breed it with to determine what you get in the clutch. Albinos can produce normals, hets, and albinos all out of the same clutch or any combination of those in different percentages depending on the geneology of the parent's. Also some traits can be passed to offspring that are not necessarily a genetically linked "morph". Take color in chondros for example, snakes with more blue are line bred to produce higher blue offspring. It is not gauranteed you will get blue offspring like it is when you breed say albinos of certain species. When you breed two albinos your going to get albino offspring. Chondros are highly variable in color and nobody has figured out exactly how to prouce a certain type of offspring because they are not typical gentic morphs they are just line bred traits so there is still no gaurantee of what you'll get. Some boa and python breeders know almost exactly what they are going to get out of any given clutch but if a snake comes out looking strange or abberant patterned it could still pass those traits on to it's offspring so sometimes even though animals may look almost like a normal it may have a trait that when line bred could be exagerated over generations to make something extreme looking. Hope that makes sense LOL.