Quote Originally Posted by Luke Martin View Post
This may be the only thing I kind of disagree with. Quality animals can produce sub par animals. Line breeding takes time and you're not going to be producing amazing animals all the time only because your breeders are nice looking. Most of the time, the reason you see the sub par quality animals for sale is because the breeder held back the best quality, or it sold before most people even saw the animal. A lot of the stuff you see on the classifieds are the lesser quality animals, because the high quality gets picked up first. Not disagreeing with your premise, just offering a reason for it over blaming most breeders for selling sub par animals based on their breeding stock.
I am actually with you on this one. I agree a lot of snakes never see the open market. Some of mine are like that.

And I fully agree you get the gamut from even the nicest parents.

You hit on a key thing here in that line breeding takes time. My point with the Pastel and Enchi comment was that I really believe there would be more fine examples than bad ones if more people had started the line breeding process early versus just breeding whatever they can get their hands on.