New Red Carpet Baby

[toddnbecka]

Good to have some idea of what to expect as far as the adult size, I was thinking the jungle cross may have been part coastal. The IJ's are a much smaller breed than coastals, and won't need as much space to be comfortable. I'm not planning to keep them in tubs, prefer to build wooden enclosures for them.

So the reptile community is much like the fish/aquarium community (been into that most of my life, relatively new to reptiles) regarding mixed breeding. I've seen some downright deformed results of crossing different cichlids, the parrot cichlids are a good example. On the really extreme end, I'm just happy that they haven't gotten around to genetically engineering "glo snakes" yet, lol.

One thing I don't see though, it seems less likely that reptiles would be accidentally or unintentionally crossed the same way as a tankful of fish in the hands of an inexperienced keeper. One doesn't (usually anyway) simply toss a random group of snakes together then later discover that one or more are expecting, or simply wake up to a new crop of babies one day.

I do plan on breeding the Dominican boas, and have pure breeding stock from several different lines to work with for the sake of genetic diversity. I picked my two carpets up because I liked them, and I have nothing against keeping "mutts", though I don't breed them myself.

[pinefamily]

Well put, Derek.