Same genes, different names...?

[the_rotten1]

I understand years of line breeding some specific traits and creating your own line of a base gene... Like Brian Gundy and his gold blush Mojave.

Didn't the gold blush turn out to be a separate gene though? Sort of like blade came out of clown and leopard showed up in het pieds. It's interesting how some genes can mask the appearance of others.

If there's anything I've learned over the last couple of years it's that there's so much variety even within a given morph. You can have two snakes with the same genes but they look drastically different from each other. I think if anything odd showed up in my collection I'd do my due diligence to prove whether or not it was something that's already out there before I slapped a new label on it. There's no reason we need half a dozen lines of fire or pastel.