Quote Originally Posted by Slim View Post
In my personal opinion, I would like to see the importation of CH baby bags reduced, and as Robin mentioned, see the end of importation of gravid WC females. In a perfect world I would like to see CH animals offered only to breeders and serious hobbyist. There are plenty of CB Normals produced every year that can go into the PETCO and PetSmart display cases.

We have so many options right now for projects with just the proven morphs we already have, and honestly, the chance of you finding a Blue Ghost in an "unsorted" bag of babies is absolutely zero. The guys in west Africa who are putting the babies in the bags see more ball pythons than all of us will ever see in a life time. It's not likely they're going to put something very different in one of those bags.

The truly special BPs, either CH or WC are held back, and deals are struck. Deals you and I rarely ever know about.

When breeder XYZ proves out something really special or different, you regularly see the parent BP described as, "an animal I imported from Africa a few years back." Notice they never say, "This was an animal that I was made aware of by a broker, and after seeing pictures, won in a bidding war against every other big breeder in the business." They also never say. "Yeah, I found it in a bag of babies."

So, while you may find some interesting females, and a few things that look kinda' like Fires, YB, or Granites, you are not going to open that bag and find a Toffee waiting to make you rich and famous.
wow why you gotta crush a dream. lol You are absolutely telling the truth. I agree the likely hood of finding a coral glow or toffee or even a spider in a baby bag is a big fat zero. however im not looking for fame or fortune. i love the genetic aspect of it. just being able to improve my normals coloration/patterns with some differant locality females is huge to me. maybe not to others but selctive breeding for me makes it worth the effort. i buy normals quite often if it has something unique that i think will improve my collection. i dont think ill be buying any more baby bags but just wanted to do it for the experience.