SnakePower said:
Why only Jag look alikes?? If Jags originated from coastals, there is absolutely no reason with the right selective breeding that we can duplicate a genuine Jag! I know that is the thought of several big breeders!
I will try to give you a better example:
You want to create a albino, what do you do??
You try and find two hets to breed togeather, but what if there aren't any Hets around, you can't knowingly breed any or find any, you just have to be lucky to stumble across to animals that are Het for the same condition to produce the
genetic morph(How likely is that to happen??).
Remember, selective line breeding won't create a genetic morph if you haven't got the genetic's there to start with.
So, a really nice looking jag lookalike Coastal crossed with a nice looking jag looking coastal won't give you Jag offspring, it will just give you normal coastals, some that may look like their parents.
I am not saying that you couldn't line breed really nice looking Jag lookalike coastals and get some stunning snakes, but they won't be a genetic morph, just a standard line bred animal, which I would be excited to own, I am sure.
The original coastal female was a fairly normal looking Coastal from memory, didn't look like the Jag.
Again, if there are illegal true Jag imports in Australia , then that's a different matter.
Neil