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[Bluebonnet Herp]

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't make a difference.

It sure does. Anaconda hybrids differ depending on who's who in the pairing. It peaked in my curiosity since, a few years back, I saw a documentary about human development, and, although it was about people, it said as a general rule, offspring inherit more from their father. How true this really is, I'm not sure. In reptiles, this may less so be true. However, it definitely did get me thinking.
Now, keeping that in mind, I've browsed through some pics of hybrid wall pythons and, although people have said they lack heat pits, there were a couple of facial shots and some of the snakes- not all- did actually have a few heat pits.
So I was wondering, what was done differently in their choice of who played mommy and who played daddy?

Oh and don't do it - hybrids suck.

Don't care.

Aaand, you ask for just opinions, no discussion.... That wont work. We can try, but as soon as several people post their opinions and between these opinions contradictions appear, and if the thread then slows down, discussions will start. You can get your opinions but dont even attempt to stop or prevent discussions between these opinions, its a forum, it will happen.

I want to avoid the discussion of "Don't breed hybrids; they're evil!" just because that's one person's opinion, which can be disagreed with, and it isn't productive with the information I'm trying to find. I have my own opinion on the subject, and I don't need input on it. It simply isn't productive, and, if anything, can cause some big ole' flame war.
Now, discussion of whether the phenotype of a super-ball differs because the blood is, say, the father this time and not the mother, would be quite interesting and be very informative.

hybrids are actually not on topic here since the original thread is only about BPs, but while its started.... I think hybrids are not a good idea, except to maybe move specific genes across the species barrier. Which would easily be a 30-year project. In rat snakes / corn snakes / etc it is being done i think. But it seems to be hard or near impossible to do with pythons. There are hybrids, but to move a gene across the species barrier, you need to make a hybrid, then breed it to ball python, breed it to ball python again, and again, and you need to get to a point where its 90%+ ball python and 10% some other python species, and then (if it carries a new visual gene along with it) prove it out in ball pythons. And because they are still hybrids people may simply reject it. Theoretically it is a way to move individual genes across the species barrier, but it really would take many decades and its risky and you produce a ton of 50% and 25% and 12.5% and 6.25% hybrids. Its crazy, really.

Please re-read my first post.
Now, "moving genes across the species barrier" would not work because all the offspring would be non-pure descendants of a different species line. And this is exactly why everybody craps their pants when somebody posts about hybrids.