Quote Originally Posted by lokai99 View Post
So I have seen a few pics of interphases and such and it seems to me that hybrids are somethingthat readily happen in the garter snake world. Is hybridizing such a problem within the community? I'm getting my first garter from a trusted source so that's not gonna be an issue for me just curious as to how often hybrid snakes are encountered within the captive trade.
Hybridisation does happen in the hobby. Usually when someone is keeping mixed species an wasn't 100% aware of the sexes of their snakes.
This question has popped up before. The reason why people don't do it is because there is simply no point. Breeding x + p to make a new colour-form, when you consider the already extensive variety in the existing species and sub-species, is really unecessary.
On another forum someone asked if he could breed tetrataenia with marcianus .... when asked why he said he fancied a tetrataenia with a checker pattern .... I told him to buy himself an infernalis before he thought about pollution the tetrataenia bloodline!