Technical "Morph" question

[Loren]

"color phase" could be used too. Just my opinion, would be that I tend to call them a phase or variation when its still a wild type coloration, but it becomes a morph when its more or less man made through custom breeding. Again, thats just in my mind.

[Stefan-A]

"color phase" could be used too. Just my opinion, would be that I tend to call them a phase or variation when its still a wild type coloration, but it becomes a morph when its more or less man made through custom breeding. Again, thats just in my mind.

I see what you mean, but so far, there aren't any man-made snake morphs at all. All we really do is selective breeding. What we make happen in captivity could well happen in the wild too, we just increase the odds a bit.

[infernalis]

So anyways what brought this up was a discussion on inbreeding.

I can see where it would be necessary to inbreed to increase the odds with say albinism, but I cannot see a viable reason where it would be NECESSARY to inbreed flames or even Pugets to get more of the same.

An acquaintance bred sibling Iowa Snow Radix and it yielded a litter of 100% snows.

Had he bred the snows to unrelated radix, the results would have been quite different.