should i even ????

And yes Dj, half sib is better than sib. If I understand your question right.

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Originally Posted by moravaguy

ok this guy is from this year, he has a sister that is almost the same, him and her are the only ones that have such a nice partcial stripe. should i breed them together and see what happens? btw they are both just from a normal x normal

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Not to rain on anyone's parade because it's a great topic, but, I see no reason to do this breeding.
Making more partial stripes?
Nothing in that snake screams reproduce me :confused:

If it was something strange and not seen alot fine, but partial stripes?

well yea i understand that a half sib is better than regular sibling, but arent the risks the same as opposed to linebreeding a father and daughter, like a half brother and half daughter.

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Not to rain on anyone's parade because it's a great topic, but, I see no reason to do this breeding.
Making more partial stripes?
Nothing in that snake screams reproduce me :confused:

If it was something strange and not seen alot fine, but partial stripes?

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thanks man this is what i was kinda of wanting to know is if it would be worth the while to yall or not to try and see if this snake and his almost twin sister would come up with something nice but ive been learning so much that i havent replyed lol. thank all of you for such good replys. oh and its not really just the partical stripe its the difference in contrast of the snake color as a whole and the over all differance of the rest of the clutch these two snakes have out of 13 eggs that came from the same parents.

moravaguy,

If you want to dinker with the 2, I would suggest back breeding them to the parents instead of to each other. Or grow them up and see if they pass it on to their young in future breeding.

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Originally Posted by TessadasExotics

moravaguy,

If you want to dinker with the 2, I would suggest back breeding them to the parents instead of to each other. Or grow them up and see if they pass it on to their young in future breeding.

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ok i can agree with that, but wouldnt breeding them together be the best way to see if there is anything going on in there? inbreed once and then take a responsible path and be sure to separate the offspring, why would that hurt?

If you want to, I don't see why not. Sibling breeding isn't going to give you an issue unless you keep doing it generation after generation.

I know reptiles can handle inbreeding pretty well, and so can rodents. I've been doing my own experiment with rats. Sib to sib, father daughter, son mother, etc. So far no issues and I doubt I will run into anything at this point. There was a study done on mice. It took 15 generations of sib to sib before anything weird started showing up. I'm guessing reptiles would be similar to that experiment considering they aren't roamers and would come in contact with family members quite often in the wild.

Also, if you want to do it, do it! Don't let anyone hold you back. Plenty of morphs were created/found by people just like you who bred things no one else thought to breed. You're not going to have a problem getting rid of a clutch of normals. Bp clutches aren't that big.