I have been wanting a fire ever since I saw my first picture of a black eyed leucistic earlier this year. I've also noticed of a fair number of people on here talking about wanting to pick up a fire and work it into their breeding plans. I've been looking at fires for sale from kingsnake, people on here and a number of breeders that sell their snakes on websites that they run, and I've noticed that very few are of the high quality that people on here own. Many are not very yellow and others have a high amount of speckling and pattern. I have also seen some BELs with varying degrees of yellow spotting.

I have a question for people here with fires or that have worked with or seen many fires and BELs:
If the reason for my wanting fires is to make a clean, solid white BEL, is it imperative that I but only the cleanest, brightest and most patternless (banded looking) fires that I can find? Also, are the traits that I just mentioned with fires consistently passed down by the parents? This is what I assume but wanted an opinion from someone who has bred them. If so I am guessing that the non-fire parent would also be better suited were it free from any speckling or pattern.

Thanks in advance for any insight into my question!