Other snakes morph possibilities

[N4S]

I was thinking about this the other day.

There are so many different kind of bp morphs I see around.

Has anyone ever tried this with other snakes or think there will ever be a time when another snakes has as many morph types as the bp?

[qiksilver]

do you mean like cornsnakes? Many snakes have naturally occurring morphs, to name a few, brooks kingsnakes have incredible morphs, as do garter snakes, not to mention boas, or anything else for that matter. Any animal that could possibly have a gene go 'wrong' somewhere will have a morph, because morphs are simply genetic anomalies within a population.

**btw, those were just a small group of the animals I thought about at first. look through these forums, there are some people with amazing carpet python or boa or many other snake morphs.

[Evan Jamison]

BP morphs are not "made" like a mad scientist BP breeder working on a new genetic engineering project with test tubes and lightning. They (base morphs) are originally found in the wild and bred to determine the genetics, or very rarely hatched from two non-visual parents. Pretty much every abnormally colored or patterned snake of any species that is found is bred with intention of proving out the genetics to be inheritable. BPs just happen to have many more inheritable traits than most other species. Corns are another species with a wide variety of color and pattern mutations, but once again, most of these morphs were originally found in the wild.

-Evan