I'm new to this whole ball python scene, and I'm trying to figure things out. So far I've gathered that normals are generally old hat and rare/interesting morphs are by far the driving force of the hobby.
I'm curious, though...is there ever any cooperative breeding between breeders? For instance: if a well-established breeder has male cool-morph-A, and a trusted acquaintance (another well-established) has female cool-morph-B, does anyone ever say to their trusted acquaintance "Hey, let's breed these two together...each of us can get half of the eggs and consider it a gamble as to what we'll get!" It seems like that would be a cool way to begin an involvement in a breeding program. Are breeders too competitive to do this? Or are there other reasons that it wouldn't happen?