I actually think a lot of the morph breeding has led to ignoring what may be more important traits in these snakes. I'm talking about temperament, feeding consistency, etc.
The 'basic chassis' has fallen by the wayside while people enthuse over the 'paint jobs', as it were.
Why settle for a high-end morph that eats mice every 3rd Tuesday when the wind is blowing, and bites you when you change her water bowl? People are throwing their morphs with any old normal female they can find--and even if they select good ones, that's still just one generation of 'good', and you have no idea what's lurking in that animal's lineage. The only way to fix that in the long run is to produce lines of good normals, and keep better track of the lineages of the normals that are produced from morph breedings.
