Desert Morph, what are your thoughts?

[Serpent_Nirvana]

I won't be getting into deserts, but I do think I see things differently.

You can still breed males and advance genetically farther with males. I just see it as having your odds cut in half for something you might want to produce. Breed a male desert to an enchi, you have a 1/8 chance of a tiger male. Just makes those high end combos that much harder to produce. Hit on a female... dead end, sorry, pet only animal. Due to the issue I just have that much more respect for the desert combos being produced.

If you look at these animals as an investment, yes it is a horrible project. Purely from a hobby perspective, there is much to be done with these guys. It's not like we are producing complete failure of an animal, you just can't breed females.

I would love to be able to look at it like this, and I do hope that down the road I feel comfortable adding a desert project. Right now, I just don't trust that the females I produced would remain pets, and not bred due to ignorance or "just to see what happens."

I'm certainly not of a mind that every single ball python produced into this world has to be bred -- far from it -- I think it would be great to advance and encourage the notion that "pet only" is a fun and perfectly valid way to enjoy ball python morphs. Moreover, I could even try to take your argument one step further and posit that the infertility of females could eventually be a good thing for the project, keeping numbers down as only 1/4 of all offspring from a desert breeding would be breed-able deserts.

I just ... Don't know how things are going to pan out yet.