Okay, so I figured I would see what everyone thought about this particular question. When it comes to collecting reptiles there are two goals; having multiple morphs of one species (like say, ball pythons) or having multiple types of animals or species. I suppose some people just collect snakes of various kinds, while others try to collect all kinds, or even all kinds of reptiles or even animals in general.
For myself I kinda care more about having multiple varieties of animals. I know my signature doesn't present as so, but I have 2 balls, a corn, 2 ribbon snakes, 1 leo, 1 crested, 1 pinktoe, an sideneck turtle, and a tiger salamander. I don't want to get any heat for this because it's just my particular goal in reptile keeping, but I like species variety over morph variety. Don't get me wrong, if I could have a "money is no object" animal collection I would have everything...literally. But considering my means I have to limit my animal overhead.
I know many on here love having multiple morphs of the same species so I just want to get a talk going. What do others think about their collections and what they like in terms of the the animals they have? Do you care more about covering the bases in terms of morph or species diversity? Or, maybe someone out there collects only one morph of ball python. Who knows?