Scrubby helping us decorate +more

[millertime89]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

It's a hybrid. Doesn't happen in one pairing or in the first year.

Also, way more off beat hybrids have been made.

Woma x ball. Ball x burm.

I'm fairly certain a short tail python or blood python has been crossed with ball pythons too (though I could be really wrong on that)

yup, called super balls or something like that. Also angolan x ball (not much of a hybrid but it still is one) creates the angry ball, pretty misleading name... Oh, and the short tail/blood crossed with a carpet, these things are SICK!


here's the carpal I saw in person. This breeder's table had a lot of colubrid hybrids on it as well.

[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?

[jarich]

Originally Posted by millertime89

yup, called super balls or something like that. Also angolan x ball (not much of a hybrid but it still is one) creates the angry ball, pretty misleading name... Oh, and the short tail/blood crossed with a carpet, these things are SICK!

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

[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.

[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.