First Morphs?

[RaskaNeil]

This might be a stupid question and it seems like it would be a simple answer, but where did the first morphs come from? How did we get the first Albino balls, garters, or whatever? Then Mojaves, Pastels, and etc. etc. Were they just genetically weird wilds at first that someone was lucky enough to find or did we do something to them during incubation?

Sorry to ask if it's already on the site and I just couldn't find it or if it was just so simple to begin with!

[snakesRkewl]

Straight from the wild

[RaskaNeil]

Excellent! so they are just anomalies that we lucky enough to get at!

[Rob]

People hand collect bps in the wild. When they happen to run into something that isn't normal they give a call to their contacts (the big boy breeders) the contacts pay big bucks for the unique animal hoping they can prove it genetic.

[BrianB801]

Has there ever been a new morph that was bred in captivity from a normal x normal pairing? I assume that all original morphs (single gene) came from a normal clutch in tha wild and jus happened to be born with a genetic deformity, is anyone aware of a situation when this happened in captive breeding?

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[Pythonfriend]

a morph can go undetected in captivity for a while, if its recessive, or codominant but the heterozygous version doesnt look very different from a normal.

i think the first blue-eye lucys were produced in captivity, that must be quite a moment when you are the first one to hit a super-form and its the first blue-eye lucy ever produced.

but the genes all seem to come from africa.