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Old 08-22-2007, 09:08 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Re: can you cross breed

my freind want to cross a flam and puget garter is this a bad idea?
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Old 08-22-2007, 09:48 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Re: can you cross breed

Well yes. They aren't the same subspecies and would muddy the bloodlines of both snakes subspecies. And as James said, why would you want to do it anyway when it's already proven you get crappy snakes with low sell value.
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Old 08-22-2007, 10:30 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Re: can you cross breed

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my freind want to cross a flam and puget garter is this a bad idea?
I don't know why he wold want to do this, I can't see how you could possibly make a flame look any better than it already does.
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Old 08-22-2007, 10:49 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Re: can you cross breed

If I remember the colors correctly he's probably trying to get the red blue color of the SanFran. Garter, but it would be unwise to breed them, so DON"T DO IT!!!!!!
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Old 08-22-2007, 11:07 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Re: can you cross breed

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my freind want to cross a flam and puget garter is this a bad idea?
possible as it may be, but it extremely frowned upon.
he would be taking to snakes with emense natural beauty
and dismantling that.

but it might be possible
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Old 08-22-2007, 12:25 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Re: can you cross breed

I think he's under the wrong impression that by mixing the two subspecies you'd automatically get a mix of the colours. I know flames are codominant, but not sure what the blue in the Pugets are. You very likely could end up with a snake that looks nothing like either of the two and could look like a plain old garter snake. Mixing snakes is not like mixing paint. As has already been stated this really is a bad idea, and probably not only could you end up with very dull looking snakes, no one would probably buy them and it would mess up how the snakes are naturally.

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