Reptile Forum, Reptile Classifieds - CaptiveBred

Drymarchon32 · Key Member Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 271

I have to agree with the camp of purists, I think to mix and match is heading for trouble, when the animals are gone from the wild the various geographical morphs/subspecies (lets not get into that debate Very Happy

) will be so diluted in the captive populations that they will be lost forever. Shame. Albinism, leucistic and erythristic all occur naturally so are not so bad but still I like 'em pure.

Mixing of genes can also be very beneficial for a captive populations, so on the other hand there may be a positive effect, but still I like my snakes to be as they are in the wild.

Al
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Just A Beginner · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:58 am Post subject:

Sorry, but I get annoyed with the 'theres nothing wrong with it, we cross to make mongrels' tripe.

Just because royals and burms are both legless and scaly doesn't make them any less different from each other than a pair of four legged furries.

What you're looking at is more like crossing a lion and a tiger, and you don't want to know the medical problems ligers and tigons have Confused

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SteveL · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:21 am Post subject:

i think its great Cool

any updates
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SteveL · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:21 am Post subject:

blimey theres an edit button am i seeing things???? Shocked

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ern79 · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject:

hybrids amaze and fascinate me, i think the whole "playing god" thing goes out the window unless you artificially inseminate or genetically engineer these animals, allowing two different animals to breed whether or not individuals think its morally or ethically correct, is just a matter of husbandry and either they will or they wont breed, you cant force them to, now that would be playing god.
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christophermchale · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject:

its not playing god, its science.
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Al Stotton · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:13 am Post subject:

Wrong,pointless,stupid Crying or Very sad

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christophermchale · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject:

how do you figure its pointless?

a great reason to create hybrids are purely economical ones.

that seems like a damn good point to me.
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Al Stotton · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject:

a great reason to create hybrids are purely economical ones. huh Question

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christophermchale · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject:

sorry "great reasons to create hybrids are purely economical ones".
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