can you cross breed

[stonyloam]

I am really new at this, but my "big eastern" had 42 babies and it seems none of them are exactly alike in coloration. They very from light, with distinct stripes and markings to almost no stripes and dark unmarked coloration with tan to gray underbellies. I had expected them to look like their mother, but not so. This is a WC snake, so at least in my area there is a wild variation in color and pattern, and you may be able to pick and choose within a species to get what you like. I personally am starting to like the darker stripeless variation.

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

my freind want to cross a flam and puget garter is this a bad idea?

[Elliot]

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.

[enigma200316]

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!!!!!!

[Josh]

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

[GarterGuy]

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.

Roy

[ConcinusMan]

Ooops. nevermind. Didn't mean to post here.