Scrubby helping us decorate +more

[millertime89]

Originally Posted by jarich

Thats an awesome looking snake! Any idea how big they get as adults?

Nope, this is the first clutch that I know of and they've only been around since February. Since it was a Coastal x Black Blood I would assume around 7 feet in length.

[millertime89]

There have been eggs from this breeding a few years back, female scrub was an old wild caught girl and she died before laying eggs. No autopsy was done that I'm aware of.

Retics and Burms are no longer in the same genus btw. Nor are boas and anacondas and those have been crossed.

[Terranaut]

Carpet and royal mix =carpall

[reptileexperts]

Not that I think this will exactly work - but here is a little bit of information. Herpetologist now believe that Scrub pythons are closer related to reticulated pythons than Burmese pythons. Also the species concept of what can and can not breed is just our minds trying to understand a VERY complex interaction that we do not in fact even begin to truly understand. Species is just the classication that we give an orginism based on probability of producing viable offspring based on genetic similarities at both a genotypical and phenotypical level. Make sense?

[Pirarucu]

Personally I like it, and wouldn't be surprised if it worked. Retics have always looked to me like the middle ground between the Python and Morelia genera. They're certainly closer to scrubs than they are to balls, but ball x retic has been done.. Overall I think could easily work, and I'm quite excited to see the results..

[stephanbakir]

both burm X ball and ball X retic have been done, this isn't overly far fetched in my mind.

[Pirarucu]

Ball x woma has been done, and those are much farther apart than a retic and a scrub.