Quote Originally Posted by kitedemon View Post
I don't think that temperament is attached to a morph phase but it could be a genetic trait breed able like a colour trait. It seems that some breeders will often have a morph that is this or that but they may also be related to a single animal and that animals disposition has been passed along with that colour trait, a un related morph does not have the same temperament traits at all.

Pet idea I have no hard evidence for any of this but I actually would explore it if I had a larger collection, maybe in two years I'll try my calm male to the calm female I have and see if the offspring turn out to have easy going personalities too.
This is interesting. My new pied girl seems to be pretty mellow and is a great eater. She will take live or FT, and if I leave FT in the cage, she eventually will eat it overnight. I'm doing my best to only buy good tempered, well-feeding snakes in the hopes of getting babies that eat well and have nice dispositions. It's easy enough with BP's to find sweet snakes, and it seems most breeders are able to condition babies to eat well. For the most part, it seems like my snakes act a little different with certain people, so it not only depends on the snake, but the people interacting with them as well.

I've heard about duck billing and kinking. It's too bad to see that happen, but most good breeders seem to not have problems finding a good pet-only home for them, or keeping the oddballs themselves!

I'm wondering if most of the rumors are from when there were only a few examples of each morph, back when the clowns/pieds/etc were imports fresh from Africa and more prone to wild caught behaviors.
thanks for the responses!