ghosthousecorns
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I have the old and new corn snake manuals by Kathy Love and this paragraph is on p 122 of the older book "The corn snake manual", and the same passage, though rewritten, is in the afterword in her newer version of the book Corn Snakes: The comprehensive owners Guide on p.217 . For those who have neither book, this is part of what it says (concerning the combination of a lot of different morphs together)
I always liked this (Thanks for writing it, Kathy) and it stuck in my mind, so when I saw another post today advising against combining a w/c with too many morphs, I got my books to look it up. I do like multi morph combos, but what happens when you put too much in the mix? Is it true more is not always better, or would a snake with every morph but the kitchen sink be attractive? Of course, some genes would mask other ones, but would it really be a burnt toast corn?
Some have expressed the concern that the end concoction might resemble the same outcome as when we whimsically scribbled all our crayons into one thick, gummy brown smudge- resulting in a nondescript (and not very attractive) corn snake with the appeal of burnt toast.
I always liked this (Thanks for writing it, Kathy) and it stuck in my mind, so when I saw another post today advising against combining a w/c with too many morphs, I got my books to look it up. I do like multi morph combos, but what happens when you put too much in the mix? Is it true more is not always better, or would a snake with every morph but the kitchen sink be attractive? Of course, some genes would mask other ones, but would it really be a burnt toast corn?