Quote Originally Posted by Greg'sGarters View Post
I understand where you are coming from. That was my main concern about starting this thread. But on the good side, it also might help people to learn what different hybrids look like so that they can identify them and avoid purchasing them. When I was first getting into garter snakes, I was going to breed an Oregon Red-spotted to a Red-sided. It got sold to me as a Red-sided. Had it not been for me noticing the dark colored belly, and Scott Felzer correctly identifying it for me and telling me why hybridization was bad, I might have ended up with a bunch of hybrids. So this can also be an educational thread to prevent hybridization.
The situation you describe here (planning to accidently breed concinnus to parietalis) wouldn't have been helped by seeing photos of a concinnus X parietalis hybrid... You had misidentified the pure-bred adults, not their offspring. What would have helped you in this situation was a garter species identification thread/wiki/page which contained identification photos that were guaranteed to be off the correct species (as opposed to a Google search for photos where some of them would have been incorrectly labelled).

I think most of the hybrid photos I've seen haven't been as pretty as the pure parents, but like morphs some people would find them attractive and intentionally breed them. There was a thread on RFUK last year where someone who normally bred boas was looking to acquire a pair of checkereds to breed against a pair of Cuitzeos he'd taken as part exchange on a boa. He thought it would be great to produce melanistic checkereds by hybridisation. Fortunately he decided to sell the Cuitzeos to someone who appreciated them for what they are.