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[piedwick]

Poll Pied

I love both 50/50% pied's and those super high white ones too. Only if I could have both.

Comments

[hardcore_pixee]

They both look amazing, but I prefer 50/50. That way you get both the white and more patterning in the normal coloured areas.

[piedwick]

You are right! My boyfriend said to get the 50/50 one and if I want a white one, save up and get a BEL BP later on.

[node_of_ranvier]

Tough call....going with the the 50% one b/c she has cooler marking distribution. Kinda looks like a little heart on the anterior region there ^_^

[piedwick]

Good eyes! I didn't notice that.

[paopaotang]

I would go with the 90%.'m just a huge fan of high white pieds. If you're planning on breeding though I would go with the 50/50.

[enchelynassa]

I'd go with the 50/50, but it's really your decision :>! I just figure by the time it's 90/10 you may as well get a leucistic instead.

[entelodont]

I don't either, but I have major issues with morph breeding anyway.

[okami_no_yume]

*waves hello* Wandered over here from stupidpetowners to witness the trainwreck. Anyways, I'm not particularly knowledgeable about pythons or reptiles in general, so I'm curious. What is morph breeding, exactly? From what I can tell, it seems to be a rather highly unethical breeding practice.

Hope you don't mind my asking. :) I know next to nothing about herps.

[entheos]

Breeding visual mutation snakes - albinos, pieds (as above), etc, etc. Linebreeding (sibling to sibling, offspring to parent) is used to hatch more of the mutation, or to cross one mutation with another mutation so that more than one flaw is expressed at any given time. All the line-breeding can result in offspring unable to thrive or severe physical impairment - eyelessness, scalelessness, impaired neurological function.

As a side-effect, hundreds of thousands of "normal" offspring are created and dumped at reptile shows and to wholesalers.

Almost every single reptile breeder breeds mutation snakes because the unusual nature of the offspring is what sells. The reptile hobby is not to be confused with pet ownership, though - there might be some crossover, but the two are not the same thing.