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RE: what kind of king?

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Posted by: DMong at Sun Jun 5 17:46:15 2011  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]  
   

Well, to be honest, I wouldn't breed it with anything since I don't agree with crossing species, or subspecies. It's because when they are bred, they go on to dilute the integrity of other genuine types in the hobby that so many have worked hard to keep as authentic as possible, so I can't give you any real suggestions there.

Breeding it to a genuine form of subspecies like floridana, or goini will only produce more undescernible crosses that are questionable and hard to identify. And any offspring those offspring will ever have will do the same as well, and so on.

See, when snakes are crossed to closely related types like floridana, goini and getula, the offspring are eventually sold later down the line as what they tend to best represent, not necessarily what they actually are. It really doesn't matter how honestly they are represented in the beginning, it's just how it realistically works. Now since you don't even know what the precise genetic composition is on it, what would you even sell them as?

See, this is what I mean, all you can call them is getula crosses, that's it!. I'm not trying to be nasty about it, but in my opinion it isn't the right thing to do to knowingly make more unknown crosses. But that doesn't seem to discourage many from doing just that.

Anyway, asking me what to cross something with will never get much of a cheering section answer..LOL!. Lots of people like me because of this, and lots of people hate me because of this, but after working with countless snakes for several decades, and noticing where this hobby is going, this is what I FIRMLY believe in..



cheers, ~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"


   

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