Thoughts on Hybrids

What are your thoughts on Hybrids?

Superball Blood x BP
Woma x Ball python
ect.


Whats your Fav. i like the Superballs

Some of them look pretty cool. It's just too bad they aren't born sterile, because most hybrid projects seem to end up muddying pure blood lines, which can never be undone. Look what it's done to the carpet hobby.

I think hybrids are interesting creatures and would love to have some in my collection one day.

However, i also think the people that breed and sell them need to make sure that whoever the animal ends up with even years down the road knows they are getting a hybrid.

Its all about responsible ownership.

this is going to go bad pretty quick!

i love them!!

Most F2s and beyond I don't like the looks of, they drift genetically towards one species or the other, or at least appear to in looks. I love many F1 hybrids, but wouldn't ever consider a hybrid anything more than a neat pet.

Personally, I think hybrids are an abomination to nature.

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Originally Posted by Slim

Personally, I think hybrids are an abomination to nature.

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I think the same thing about the mutations reptile keepers breed for, but I still like 'em

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

I think the same thing about the mutations reptile keepers breed for, but I still like 'em

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Every base mutation keepers breed for, and even some combos and homozygous co-doms were originally found in the wild.

I think some hybrids are really cool looking. I do thinkt here should be an effort to mark permamently any hybrid to make sure it's identified as such.
HOWEVER...
I produced hybrid tegus and I could NOT find any way to permamently mark the babys. They were too small to chip, and no tag stays on when the animal sheds like tegus shed. Rings would have been outgrown.
With any snake that is large enough to be chipped.. (or lizard for that matter) that might be a possibilty.
As long as the hybrid is sold as a hybrid, then I think they are fine. I agree though.. F1 generation tends to be the cool ones, with all following ones drifting towards one parent or the other.

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

Every base mutation keepers breed for, and even some combos and homozygous co-doms were originally found in the wild.

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So are two headed reptiles. THAT is something I would be seriously opposed to someone breeding, however. At that point, the health of the animal is very much at stake.

I very much respect people's concerns about hybrids, which are very real and serious.

Personally I'd like to hope that responsible breeding and ownership can keep future python hybridization from causing the issues that have come up with other hybrids.