It happens every time the price drops on a normal phase animal. Breeders
and wholesalers start to dream up provocative marketing names to boost the
sales of their animals, and everything that has the remotest of a unique
color, pattern, or combination of the two will be crowned the next gotta
have it variation even though there is a very good chance it will turn out
to be nothing more than a very ordinary looking adult. I've seen it happen
primarily with corn snakes, leopard geckos, bearded dragons, red tail boas,
and ball pythons, but it is happening with other animals as well. I
recently overheard two dealers talking at a local swap saying that they were
incubating eggs from clown ball pythons. Correct me if I am wrong here but
isn't this a rather recent development by the Barkers. I have my doubts
whether these two amatures (trust me if you would have seen the rest of the
stuff at their table you would kow what I mean) could have simultaneously
arrived at the same end product as the original clown producers.
These are my opinions of course, and I am not trying to demean the efforts
of those people seriously working on developing legitimate morphs that have
been proven to breed true over time. Even though I do not care for it
personally, the blizzard lizzard is a rather fascinating animal, and the
snow leopards are simply awesome.
It seems to me though that these legitimate morphs come from those people
who take the time to understand the genetics behind their creations and not
from some average Joe Blow who suddenly has 25 baby bearded dragons to sell
so he makes up a fancy name to try and convince people they are anything but
normal.
Steve Schindler
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