So I have 6 BPs, 5 female, Pied, Cinnamon and 3 normals, and one spider male. Picking up a het pied male today for the Pied female. We've bred before, but this is what the collection is down to now.

It's been a long time since I followed reptile markets and there are tons of new morphs.

But I'm wondering, with no true "morph standards", how does one choose high quality animals to breed? So much of BPs seem to be personal preference anyway, how do I know that my spider male has genes worth passing on? My Pied is pretty and high white, but low whites can throw high white and vice versa, so that isn't a genetic standard, some yellow snakes brown out over time, but that doesn't mean they don't throw snakes that stay yellow, etc.

In a market where there are SO many snakes, I wonder how to measure quality of any I might pick up, of what I have, and whether or not mine are worth even breeding (the pied is going to be bred, obviously, if I'm picking up a mate for her.)

It's easier in the dog world. They have the standards for "show" quality and "pet" quality.


Thanks for your input.