What is quality?

[Reesy]

By what standards do you all judge the quality of a specific morph? I mean, isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder? I have seen so many posts that say, "make sure it's a quality specimen of this particular morph." By what, who's standards are these comments made?

[cmack91]

to me, this is a pastel:

http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=32&de=880912

while this is a nice pastel

http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=32&de=885282

this is just my opinion, it is in the eye of the beholder as you say

and sorry if i used anyone here's posting, im not trying to bash on anyone

[buddha1200]

to me quality is in the eye of the beholder.
some people like alot of blushing some dont,
some like reduced pattern some dont,
high white low white and so on,only you can judge what you like and how good u think the quality is.

[Gloryhound]

It is an individual thing for the collector, but a general consensus for the breeder. As a collector what you find to be exceptional is up to you. As a breeder if you used that theory and only a small group of collectors or other breeders were in agreement the animals you produce would only make a small group go Wow. With that said, I see very few people that have called any reptile ugly on any reptile forum and justly so as we all try to be polite to fellow collectors and breeders or anyone else in the hobby for that matter.

[jjmitchell]

well for example look at pastels because that is the easiest to definitively judge. A high qulity pastel should be bright yellow with a lot of blushing, to some people the color is more important others the blushing, I like both, babies should be yellow not orange, yellow babies will be better looking as adults and brown out less than orange babies.... A low quality animal is browned out, babies will be verry low color, or orange, and have little blushing......

[Naginibellatrix]

depends what your breeding to and for.

[Reesy]

depends what your breeding to and for.

Now, that is the best answer I have read yet. Thankyou.

[pingure]

I think people mean more along the lines of buy like a lesser that looks like a mojave or a very dark pastel or something along those lines because really its up to you.

[angllady2]

To me, when I decide I want to buy a particular morph, I look at as many pictures of that morph as I can find.

I pick out what makes each snake different, and I take note of what about any particular snake I like. Once I have seen 40 or 50 pictures of any particular morph, I have a good idea of what I want one to look like if I buy it. I take my favorite traits from the pictures I have seen, and decide what I want the snake I plan to buy to look like.

For example, when I went shopping for a cinnamon, I spent a week looking a different pictures of cinnamon's. I picked out all my favorite traits in the pictures, and I also noticed what other people called high quality. I had a clear picture in my mind of what I wanted mine to look like. I ended up with a high brown, reduced pattern, blush backed female that to me is a once-in-a-lifetime animal. I don't think many would disagree with me.

Bottom line is, look at as many pictures of a morph as you can find, it won't take you long to develop an eye for each morph.

Gale

[python_addict]

like the first post quality is different in morphs but Ive only had pastels to compare to eachother
just my pastel:

my most amazing quality pastel:


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