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Originally Posted by jossh27
Absolutely magnificent. Have you bred the said salamanders and tarantula?
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I have not(haven't owned any chimeras myself) but I imagine chimeras that combine multiple morphs might be useful for breeders because it would be like 2 animals in one, if their paired sex organs turn out to each carry different genomes. As I noted before, offspring couldn't inherit genes from both genomes in the chimera, but in something that produces many offspring at once like frogs, salamanders, snakes etc, you could get a mix as if 3 parents were involved in the breeding(assuming 1 chimera with 2 distinct genomes and 1 normal parent to pair it with). Could you imagine how much a chimeric ball python would go for? I've never heard of one happening, but if it did exist it ought to cost at least as much as both morphs combined if it was proven to produce gametes of both morphs.
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