Mitchell Mulks
New member
On the photo forum someone mentioned that the honey blood I posted should have it's own trade name, as the term 'blood' really isn't an ideal descriptor. While some trade names don't seem to explain the look of the morph they're attached to, I still do love a good and cleverly constructed trade name. First, a good trade name helps in the sales of your snakes, and in creating a distinction between it and similar morphs.
I like the progression people take with certain lines of morphs. Below are a bunch that work and make sense:
amel + anery = snow; snow + diffusion = avalanche
amel + charcoal = blizzard; blizzard + diffusion = whiteout
amel + diffusion = fire
anery + diffusion = granite
...and etc.
Of course some trade names don't make a lick of sense, but once they've become established in our community it's almost impossible to remove them. That's okay. There are some names though that I think should exist that for some reason or another we have yet to create. Why is it that we have names for some anery-based morphs but not for others? Here's an example of what I mean:
anery + hypo = ghost
anery + charcoal = phantom
anery + lava = ice
anery + sunkissed = ???? (why is this? Enough have now been produced.)
Why does the addition of the diffused gene to some morphs earn that morph a new name (i.e., blizzard + diffused = whiteout), but with others we just attach 'blood' to the end (i.e., ice + diffusion = ice blood)? I realize this is most of the time just attributable to whether or not someone pushes for a trade name to be accepted or applied to a new morph. Even though, I for one like consistency, and would like to see some of these morphs have their own names.
Here's a picture of my honey blood. I think I do agree with the poster on the other forum, I think this morph is cool and special enough to warrant it's own trade name. Given that we haven't seen a lot of these dudes posted, why don't we as a community take the time to come up with a good and relevant name for this morph that follows the 'honey' precedent applied with the caramel sunkissed morph.
Now, if we can all find a good name for a honey blood, then I'm sure we can come up with fitting and cool trade names for a bunch of our other more common morphs.
'Lava' is one of the best hypo trade names we have. Given that plenty of lava bloods have now been produced, I'm suggesting that we adopt the trade name Magma to describe something that is genetically lava + diffused. The trade name magma would follow the lava-based trend that was initially used to describe how intensely red this hypo morph is; with even less pattern visible on this morph because of the diffused gene, I think magma is a good name (I think of magma as even hotter and brighter than lava...even though they're one in the same).
Magma Corn Snake (Lava + Diffused)
So, here's a list I'd like to see us as a community peacefully, and with much fun, find good and creative trade names for:
Honey + Diffused = ?
Honey + Stripe = ?
Stripe + Diffused = ?
Strawberry + Anery (this one has so many names it should have ONE) = ?
Strawberry + Granite = ?
Strawberry + Snow = ?
Anery + Sunkissed = ?
Lava + Sunkissed = ?
Strawberry + Sunkissed = ?
Phantom + Diffused = ?
Motley + Diffused = ?
Ultra + Caramel = Goldbar (my proposed name)
Ultra + Caramel + Diffused = ?
Honey + Ultra = ?
Lava + Cinder = ?
Shatter (Cinder + Sunkissed) + Diffused = ?
Lava + Lavender = ?
Anery + Dilute = (Is this one currently known as 'blue'?)
Anery + Dilute + Motley = ?
Anery + Dilute + Stripe = ?
Sunkissed + Dilute = ?
Strawberry + Caramel = ?
I'd say this is a good start that could keep us busy for a very long time, and it'd be a lot of fun for us as a community to come up with together. I hope I'm not rehashing something that's been discussed to death, but even if I am I wasn't part of the discussion before, just as I'm sure a lot you weren't either.
Mitch
I like the progression people take with certain lines of morphs. Below are a bunch that work and make sense:
amel + anery = snow; snow + diffusion = avalanche
amel + charcoal = blizzard; blizzard + diffusion = whiteout
amel + diffusion = fire
anery + diffusion = granite
...and etc.
Of course some trade names don't make a lick of sense, but once they've become established in our community it's almost impossible to remove them. That's okay. There are some names though that I think should exist that for some reason or another we have yet to create. Why is it that we have names for some anery-based morphs but not for others? Here's an example of what I mean:
anery + hypo = ghost
anery + charcoal = phantom
anery + lava = ice
anery + sunkissed = ???? (why is this? Enough have now been produced.)
Why does the addition of the diffused gene to some morphs earn that morph a new name (i.e., blizzard + diffused = whiteout), but with others we just attach 'blood' to the end (i.e., ice + diffusion = ice blood)? I realize this is most of the time just attributable to whether or not someone pushes for a trade name to be accepted or applied to a new morph. Even though, I for one like consistency, and would like to see some of these morphs have their own names.
Here's a picture of my honey blood. I think I do agree with the poster on the other forum, I think this morph is cool and special enough to warrant it's own trade name. Given that we haven't seen a lot of these dudes posted, why don't we as a community take the time to come up with a good and relevant name for this morph that follows the 'honey' precedent applied with the caramel sunkissed morph.
Now, if we can all find a good name for a honey blood, then I'm sure we can come up with fitting and cool trade names for a bunch of our other more common morphs.
'Lava' is one of the best hypo trade names we have. Given that plenty of lava bloods have now been produced, I'm suggesting that we adopt the trade name Magma to describe something that is genetically lava + diffused. The trade name magma would follow the lava-based trend that was initially used to describe how intensely red this hypo morph is; with even less pattern visible on this morph because of the diffused gene, I think magma is a good name (I think of magma as even hotter and brighter than lava...even though they're one in the same).
Magma Corn Snake (Lava + Diffused)
So, here's a list I'd like to see us as a community peacefully, and with much fun, find good and creative trade names for:
Honey + Diffused = ?
Honey + Stripe = ?
Stripe + Diffused = ?
Strawberry + Anery (this one has so many names it should have ONE) = ?
Strawberry + Granite = ?
Strawberry + Snow = ?
Anery + Sunkissed = ?
Lava + Sunkissed = ?
Strawberry + Sunkissed = ?
Phantom + Diffused = ?
Motley + Diffused = ?
Ultra + Caramel = Goldbar (my proposed name)
Ultra + Caramel + Diffused = ?
Honey + Ultra = ?
Lava + Cinder = ?
Shatter (Cinder + Sunkissed) + Diffused = ?
Lava + Lavender = ?
Anery + Dilute = (Is this one currently known as 'blue'?)
Anery + Dilute + Motley = ?
Anery + Dilute + Stripe = ?
Sunkissed + Dilute = ?
Strawberry + Caramel = ?
I'd say this is a good start that could keep us busy for a very long time, and it'd be a lot of fun for us as a community to come up with together. I hope I'm not rehashing something that's been discussed to death, but even if I am I wasn't part of the discussion before, just as I'm sure a lot you weren't either.
Mitch
