Your next snake

[enigma200316]

I think I remember that to Stefan....just can't remember from where....

[enigma200316]

your not lucky so much because your 14, your lucky because your parents let you have snakes, mine wouldn't they we're deathly afraid......

[Stefan-A]

I think I remember that to Stefan....just can't remember from where....

I found it:

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.

[enigma200316]

yes....that'd be it.........

[Stefan-A]

Has it changed?

Well, if they are considered different subspecies now, instead of two varieties of the same subspecies, then something must have happened.

[adamanteus]

Well, if they are considered different subspecies now, instead of two varieties of the same subspecies, then something must have happened.

I may be wrong, but I haven't heard that they are recognised (by science) as distinct sub-species.

[Stefan-A]

I may be wrong, but I haven't heard that they are recognised (by science) as distinct sub-species.

I understood that there was a bit of debating going on at that time, but that they eventually were recognized, or rather kept, as two distinct subspecies.

[Josh]

i wonder what i red spotter mixed with an aboni checkered would look like

[Stefan-A]

Didn't somebody say long ago that hybrids usually end up looking a lot like one of the parents, or did I just dream it?

[Josh]

Justr for the record i had not plan on breeding the two.