Morph History

[MasonC2K]

is there a post or a place I can find how morphs first can about?

I know that Albino's are a natural morph. And I know that some morphs are combo's of other morphs. However, where did some of the main morphs come from? Are they natural like Albinos? did a Piebold just hatch one day and someone saw it and went "Damn that's cool. Let's see if it's kids will be like that."

[Freakie_frog]

is there a post or a place I can find how morphs first can about?

I know that Albino's are a natural morph. And I know that some morphs are combo's of other morphs. However, where did some of the main morphs come from? Are they natural like Albinos? did a Piebold just hatch one day and someone saw it and went "Damn that's cool. Let's see if it's kids will be like that."

Yep thats pretty much it.. every base morph was found crawling around out it the wild of Africa at some point.

I have heard of people when Ball's were first imported passing over pieds and axanthics cause they thought they were sick or had a fungus.

[Gloryhound]

Some of what we refer to as base morphs were also created through selective breeding of morphs from the wild that had traits in the direction the breeder was trying to go. Pastel lines are big for this. Also some where genes that were unlocked during the breeding of captive animals. Take RDR's platty daddy for example. It was a wild morph, but when bred to a normal it produced lessers! Yet if you breed two lesser offspring together you get Lucistic. Now if you breed a lesser offspring to one of the normal appearing offspring you can make a platty daddy. Hmm I wonder if this second recessive gene could be made to come out some otherplace?

[kc261]

Yep thats pretty much it.. every base morph was found crawling around out it the wild of Africa at some point.

I thought some recessive morphs were discovered by accident by breeders who just happened to pair up 2 snakes that carried the genes?

I have heard of people when Ball's were first imported passing over pieds and axanthics cause they thought they were sick or had a fungus.

That's not that surprising. The same thing, in reverse, happened in the tulip mania in Europe several hundred years ago. The most prized tulips were ones that displayed a weird stripey color pattern. It was later discovered that the color pattern was caused by a virus! Some people still raise these virus-infected tulips (it is recommended you keep them far away from other tulips), but there are also flowers that genetically have similar patterns commercially available (no virus required!).

[DSGB]

Yep thats pretty much it.. every base morph was found crawling around out it the wild of Africa at some point.

I have heard of people when Ball's were first imported passing over pieds and axanthics cause they thought they were sick or had a fungus.

i bet they are kicking themselves in the rear.

[Schlyne]

I thought some recessive morphs were discovered by accident by breeders who just happened to pair up 2 snakes that carried the genes?

That has happened. That was how the first albino GTP was discovered.