malaysian and borneo, can they breed?

[cash]

Hello, I have recently purchased what I was told were two red blood pythons However I am now under the suspision that one of the pythons was a Malaysian blood and the other was a borneo blood. apparantly the difference is shown by a row of small scales bellow the eye and above the cheek of one snake and the absence of that row in the other. Is this accurate? If so which snake is which? and Is it possible to breed a malaysian blood to a borneo blood successfully? answers to these questions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Cash

[KaHane]

It is possible to breed the two. Although they can breed, you wouldnt want to. The resulting babies turn out to be rather ugly and no reds in them.

[sSNAKESs.com]

I would have to agree with KaHane.. both snakes have there own distinct look to them and i dont think cross breeding them would produce very nice looking offspring. :P

[Linds]

Cross-breeding the two subspecies has occurred, but has produced ugly, infertile animals. Why would you even want to bred two different subspecies?

[cash]

Thanks, Guys
I was just curious as to the result of breeding the pair?
Thanks for the advice

[paul_le_snake]

i have to agree with linds. the fact that they may breed, does not really matter. what does matter is that they are 2 different sub-species and shouldn't be crossed. much the same as breeding boa constrictor constrictor with boa constrictor imperator. it can happen but would make a genetic freak. also if they do breed and are fertile what happens when the offspring breed?

[Kurzix]

just because you can do something doesn't always mean you should. Jurassic Park....science fiction is only fiction for only a few years....

[rattekonigin]

I read a post on K-snake.com regarding this sort of thing, and I'm inclined to agree with the author's point...the jist of his argument was, it's not so bad to breed completely unrelated species (i.e. GTP x carpet) because the offspring would be easily identifiable as hybrids, whereas hybrids of more closely related species (ie. blood x borneo) are more difficult to identify as such. It also takes more work to breed completely unrelated species than it does to throw a blood in with a borneo (because they're almost certainly going to breed)...so, what's the point? It's not for the challenge of breeding unrelated species or to produce an interesting looking hybrid (because it'll, essentially, look like a python curtus...whereas a GTPxcarpet wouldn't really look like either parent)