Although Bacon is "just" a normal, he's actually an important snake. He's hiding genes for opal stripe, and is destined to be the husband of Calli, lav stripe het amel, some day. I saw him at VMS, thanks to Kim and her Whiteout, I just had to go window shopping, and I thought he was a bargain- proven male, sweet genes, just needed a female to go with him! And lo and behold, I came across Calli. I hadn't planned on breeding corns at all, but the only normals and amels from this pairing would be het lav stripe, and the other offspring would be cooler, and I'd hopefully get some lav stripes and hopefully hopefully an opal stripe!!