Wow, there is a lot of passion on the hybrid subject. I admit some of them are really interesting looking. My concern is accidentally mixing hybrids with "pure" corns or kings or whatever. I want my corn snakes to be corn snakes. Not hybrids. I wouldn't consider a hybrid freezer bait, but I want them to be clearly labelled, and I worry about ignorant or unscrupulous folks mixing creamsicles etc in snakes that I then end up with unknowingly.
That said, mesozoicreptiles.com has some really striking snakes, and I don't see how anyone could accidentally breed them back to cornsnakes & then sell the results as cornsnakes. So I think, as a noobie, it's fine to have them as long as they are PROPERLY LABELLED so those who want pure cornsnakes or pure kingsnakes or whatever can avoid accidentally adding those hybrid genes to their projects.
The other issue is that I think the whole speciation thing may be a little bit off, if intergrades & hybrids occur in the wild. That would indicate these snakes are not very far separated genetically, if they can & will mate successfully in their natural environment (as opposed to be manipulated into doing it in a vivarium). That's a whole 'nother subject, but an interesting one.
