Ball Python X Green Tree Python Hybrid

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@Dobonas, and brandon osborn, I have heard theyre pretty comfortable in trees, but I never looked into it. And if the sex drive in GTP males is good then I would absolutely opt to have the female be a ball. Ive never heard anything about the durability or survival rate of hatchlings, but I would totally beleive balls being a little hardier in that department.

@Exotixtowing the simple passion and desire to create them(as stated in my first post) is enough of a reason. Why did anyone mix red and blue together? To create the specific shade of purple they wanted. No one that breeds balls is furthering the species by doing so. They are selectively breeding gene pools that they LIKE. Or that sell well. We may try and pick the biggest females, or the least aggressive snakes. But that isnt helping them to survive as a species, so I am going to ask you WHY you breed ball pythons. Or anything else for that matter? It is because you want to. Plain and simple.

As someone earlier mentioned. there are a lot of what ifs, and thats part of the allure. When breeding ANYTHING there is signifigant risk that somthing and anything may go wrong and youll lose the babies and the mother. There is always that risk in the breeding of any animal humans included. So thats like asking a person why they wont have kids, and them responding why would you? It could impact your health.

As far as mutant snakes go, thats EXACTLY what im going for = P a mutant combination of both species. Heck, BP morphs are mutant variants. What we all do here, is look for new strains we can isolate and combine with others. Hybrid breeders just do that on a broader scale in unexplored territory. And If I wound up with a clutch that wouldnt survive, then no one who doesnt support hybrids has anything to complain about. On the other end of that, if no one tweaked their forumla and tried after an experiment failed and blew up their lab the technology we use today never would have existed.

Yes, I suppose their are things that should be left to thought and discussion, like whether to inject mountain dew, or whether its a good idea to paint your rabbit. Things that can actually hurt or provide a negative life for you or your animal. But breeding two species of animal together does not deteriorate their quality of life, or provide any *additional* risks, so long as quarentine is upheld, and there is honesty in the sale of a hybrid.

That is just my opinion, but I think that the people opposed to hybrid breeding are slightly more conernced than is called for. There is just as much if not more potential to improve both species as there is to creative a mutant desiese through hybrid breeding that wipes out both. When I think of a decent sized snake that doesnt prefer to strike but isnt scared to, whom is equally comfortable in trees and on the ground, and is capable of hunting happily in either terrain, that screams survivability to me. And offers a portion of both worlds, and absolute varieability in the species that could potentially outlast both of its ancestors if it started breeding on its own. At least in my opinion, the benefits of succeeding greatly outway the possibilities of failure, and while I may or may not choose to persue this goal I do think that it should be achieved.