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Originally Posted by CrazyHedgehog
Can I ask why? In the wild if they are in proximity would they not breed?
What are the problems or reasons against?
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I will try to explain.
The biggest part of the problem is that the young will look like one of the parents. For example, like t. s. parietalis. But eventhough they look like them, they also have the genes of radix.
So you cannot tell them apart from "pure" T.s. parietalis.
And maybe it is better to keep species and/or subspecies as pure as possible.
I do not mean that these hybrids are no good snakes or so. Nothing wrong with them. But it is impossible to keep track of them.
Understand me well. I bred hybrids once and those snakes are fantastic.
I have given them to a brother of me who keeps them now.
Those hybrids were:
Their father is a Pantherophis g. guttatus (wildcolor)(female) X Lampropeltis getula niger (wildcolor) (male).
Their mother is a Creamsicle F2 (female) X [Creamsicle F2 X Pantherophis g. guttatus Amel]
The young snakes do not look like their parents and every ratsnakekeeper will see that they are hybrids.
When I bred them I knew that they would not be sold to strangers.
The young look like this...
