The Far of Future of morphs

[Brimstone111888]

I don't mean to high jack the thread, although this question does go along with the topic. What do you guys as a community think about the future of the Leucistic (sp?) balls? There are many different ways to make them and they are still pretty expensive. Also from what I have read, the BEL's and other Lucy's are all white because their skin cannot retain pigment. This means all you will ever get is more white snakes, if my understanding is correct. Even when crossing with other morphs they will still be white.

Are Lucy's the end of the line for those morphs? You can still use mojaves, lessers, butters in combos, but what about Lucy's? They are nice pets, but if they only make white snakes instead of combos, would that discourage breeders from breeding them?

[elevatethis]

I don't mean to high jack the thread, although this question does go along with the topic. What do you guys as a community think about the future of the Leucistic (sp?) balls? There are many different ways to make them and they are still pretty expensive. Also from what I have read, the BEL's and other Lucy's are all white because their skin cannot retain pigment. This means all you will ever get is more white snakes, if my understanding is correct. Even when crossing with other morphs they will still be white.

Are Lucy's the end of the line for those morphs? You can still use mojaves, lessers, butters in combos, but what about Lucy's? They are nice pets, but if they only make white snakes instead of combos, would that discourage breeders from breeding them?

I think that the leucistic morph is generally thought of as the "clean slate" as far as pattern and color go. You could add other genes into it, but once you've got a lucy, throwing in X mutation into it doesn't change its appearance in a significant way.

I think it was last year or the year before that NERD produced "Vivid," which was a BEL with something else in the mix as well and this snake turned out to be 'different' than the other lucys. I'm not sure how they'd be able to tell for sure, but maybe Kara can elaborate on that.

[juddb]

I'm not sure how they'd be able to tell for sure, but maybe Kara can elaborate on that.

Id like to here more myself....

[Holbeird]

I'd like to hear more on that as well