There are already a few out there... and a lot more will be made this season. I am talking about multi morph combos.
Take a male with 4 morphs and pair him to a female with 2 morphs. End result? Each kid will be 1 of up to 32 possible morph combinations. Easy enough right?
Take a stud male with 5 morphs and pair him to a female with 2 morphs. End result? Each kid will be 1 of up to 64 possible morph combinations. Water is starting to get a little muddy.
Take a stud male with 5 morphs and pair him to a female with 3 morphs. End result? Each kid will be 1 of up to 128 possible morph combinations! Eeny meeny miny moe...
Take a stud male with 5 morphs and pair him to a female with 4 morphs. End result? Each kid will be 1 of up to 256 possible morph combinations!! Uh, time to get creative....
Finally, take a stud male with 5 morphs and pair him to a superstar female with 5 morphs. End result? Each kid will be 1 of up to 512 possible morph combinations!!! Forgetaboutit.
Safe to say that in a couple years when you buy a high dollar hatchling snake, you aren't going to know what morphs are in its blood. You certainly won't have a guarantee. Best you can get will be a guarantee of possibilities. Sure you could guess at what the ingredients are based on the known trates of the parents.... But that is just it... It will be nothing more then a guess. And the more complicated the parents get, the more clueless you will be with the kids.
Right now people mostly buy expensive snakes because they find one they particularly like, and they want to make another one. Or maybe they want to reproduce it doing something slightly different. When buying a snake with 10 morphs you pretty much have to accept up front that you will likely never make a snake that looks anything like the origional you are about to spend big money on.
What effect will this have on pricing? I believe it will be the end of the super high dollar snakes. Sure it is a way off, but it is coming.
Your thoughts?
Mikey
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