Honest Opinion:No bashing please

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

it's ultimately your decision. I don't mind an honestly represented hybrid, some of them are super cool! Like, the superballs. But, no matter what, in my opinion you can't better nature and there is nothing more beautiful than a snake in it's natural form. I would not choose to get the striped borneo and then attempt to make hybrids from that. there is such a small chance of that happening... because trust me, if it was that easy to just put the 2 snakes together and let them do their thing, they would not be worth nearly as much. I would not even consider it as an option. I would instead, save up for another borneo. If I were to do something like produce a superball, it would be more like, I had two breedable snakes in my collection that I did not have mates for and decided to try something out and it may or may not work out, but I would definitely not rely or count on it happening. Even if I witnessed a lockup, I would be surprised to see viable eggs as a result.

Making hybrids like superballs should not be slated into one's plans... it should be treated more like... icing on the cake? Kind of like low percentage possible hets. You can toy around with them and if it actually works out that is fantastic, but don't bank on producing any pieds.

I would pick the short tail because I like them more, but I would pick it for that reason only and not for what I can do with it or how much money I might make in the future. The investment factor, while always considered is never a deciding factor in my choice of snakes. I work with mainly garter snakes, and there are a few morphs out there that, while they sell for a nice chunk of $$$$, I simply won't buy because I don't like their look, (the whitesided red-sided garter for example) and instead I will focus on line breeding for beautiful and outstanding variations of "normals". When I find some nice, outcrossed (I wish people would stop inbreeding them endlessly) albino checkered garters, I will buy them. Is it a good investment? Absolutely not. Terrible investment, you can't even hardly give them away anymore. But are they beautiful and a snake I will enjoy looking at and interacting with? Yes! That, to me at least, has far more value in it than any investment I may or may not make back in the future.

More and more people are starting to take great pride in pure lines of selectively bred snakes that, while normals, are incredibly outstanding in their own way! Super dwarfs are one of those and it IS very cool that retics come in pint size!