I’m having trouble thinking of a clear and concise way to phrase my question. But as an example, say I want to look at Hurricane Lesser combos on MorphMarket. To see everything, I have to search Hurricane Butter, then Hurricane Lesser, then Trick Butter, Trick Lesser, Blitz Butter, and finally Blitz Lesser. 
In my specific situation, I’m actually looking for a Hurricane Lesser Yellow Belly or Specter or Asphalt or Spark. So for me to do that, I would have to conduct 24 different searches. 
Surely there must be a way to tell the filter that I would like to see all proven-identical morphs when I search for something, right? Can someone tell me how to do this?
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It’s probably going to be something that needs to be coded in and updated in the future. Sadly there’s a number of things that overlap like that at the moment.
Maybe a grouping like how you can select to search for any expression of a gene. Where you can select to search for any confirmed lines of the gene.
But at the same time… Sometimes lineage is important. For example, my banana is a banana. My coral glow is coral glow. I’m not going to just umbrella them under one to keep it easy. I still explain to buyers that CG is a banana, but I keep my notes as they are from the breeders.
And sometimes you loose the polygenic traits each establishing line had because of crossing the two into each other. Some of the original butters and lesser had very strong polygenic differences that knowledge breeders were able to pick up on.
It’s maybe a bit uhm… Retentive for BPs. But was just something I picked up over the years with dog and gecko experiences.
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Yes, I was personally so surprised to find out that Butter and Lesser proved to be identical because even as a relative newbie in the hobby, I could see the polygenic differences very clearly.
Perhaps just something to allow for any kind of “or” selection in the traits filter - even if they aren’t genetically identical - would be a good addition! That would let people working on Freeway stuff to search for, for example, Yellow Belly or Asphalt in a combo, rather than checking them in separate searches. Or maybe you’re looking for pattern reduction and you’d like to get something with either Enchi or Orange Dream. I could see a lot of potential situations where this would be a useful feature.
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The same thought actually crossed my mind before too. And it applies in the reverse situation too. When I’m searching for Freeway combos, many of the search results aren’t Freeways but rather snakes that are EITHER Yellowbelly OR asphalt. I just figured it was too much for the staff to incorporate since they had just made changes to how the filters are displayed visually.
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Yes, that’s true! It would be really nice if people posting animals for sale had a way to indicate that an animal was either one thing or another, without making it look like it’s both.
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I wouldn’t know how they could program that. But it would be a nice addition.
It’s kind of like a search for possible het…but not really since it definitely carries that gene. The same search issue is also a problem in some allelic recessive genes as well like in candino albinos. A het could be carrying het candy or het albino.
I have actually seen people confused when told their animal is not carrying both genes in some indistinguishable morphs…because the tags had them all listed. 
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Oof, I never thought about that. Good point!
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