Quote Originally Posted by For Goodness Snakes View Post
There is recent information that leans toward the gold blush as being a stand alone morph. A few years ago Matt Lerer / owner of GHI Reptiles bred one of his GHIs to a female gold blush mojave and the results were totally different than when the same GHI was bred to other mojaves. It looks like I'm getting close at isolating the gene trait, gold blush is now on the morph list.

As far as high contrast albinos go I believe there are several wild caught lines. One of which is Morton Write's line. Morton is a breeder that lives in Florida, many years ago he acquired a wild caught albino that he purchased from Africa. I never did see the original albino, but I did see the hundreds of babies that were produced from a selectively bred group. In my opinion the Morton Write line consistently produces some of the best looking super high contrast albinos around.

As stated before it's all about variation. Find out which two snakes produce the cleanest looking babies and breed the parents back to their children. Do this for a couple of generations then out cross them with snakes that share the same positive visual traits.

Brian Gundy
For Goodness Snakes
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Hey Brian!

Don't get me wrong, I am not taking anything away from the Gold Blush Mojo - I think selective breeding is imperative to improving different morphs and there is no denying that your line is incredible. From a standard viewpoint your animals set the bar. Sorry I used your specific project as an example, it was the first one that came to mind as I had just finished showing one of your videos (your 5000 gram ball python) to a friend of mine. I did see the results from the Ghi x Goldblush Mojave v.s. the Ghi x Mojo comparisons and I can only offer my opinion: Quality makes a huge difference.

But you see animals like the banana and the coral glow, NERD axanthic v.s. VPI axanthics, lesser v.s. butter and black pastel v.s. cinnamon (at risk of compromising my own argument LOL), calico v.s. sugar, and (for arguments sake) the mojave and the goldblush mojave, and many more examples... a lot of people can't help but feel confused, and have a difficult time explaining it to people when they ask me, "what makes these morphs different?" My honest answer is, "quality, and bred traits" and that raises questions about what standards exist for polymorph naming rights... Again, I don't care what people get credit for - I think people should be recognized for their contributions and years of work with an animal.

I don't mean any disrespect, and I am not an expert, nor am I someone of any real influence in the community, such as yourself. I am actually a bit of a fan (which is making my response here kind of awkward for me..) but I am simply offering my opinion which is; if the mutation acts in the same way (IMO) to it's counterpart - it's the same morph. Again just my lowly (and perhaps cynical) opinion.

Respectfully,
Chris.