It depends on your definition of "successfully"……. Last year a member of another forum had a litter from a female super jungle of premature babies and slugs. This person provided multiple photos to back up validity of the breeding attempt. While this was not a viable litter in terms of live babies, this does put to rest the rumor that super jungles are sterile. This same female super jungle just ovulated a day or two ago. So, while this was not a “successful” litter in terms of live babies, it does support that super jungles can and will successfully breed.



Now that we know that super jungles are NOT sterile. I would suggest purchasing your jungle stock or super jungle from a breeder who can prove that he/she has outcrossed their breeding stock. Outcrossing is the key to having viable super jungles. The vast majority of jungles available have been bred only to produce babies, not being outcrossed and with very little consideration being put towards selective breeding. The current jungle market pricing reflects this. Most of what is available reflects maybe 20% of the potential of the jungle gene. If you are worried about “throwing your money away” these are not what you want in your breeding projects.



Things that make what I would call a quality jungle are:



Outcrtossing - Do your research. Don’t just let someone tell you that they outcrossed their breeding stock. Make them prove it.



Pattern – Lower expression jungles can make some pretty wild patterned babies but the heavy patterned ones typically have a better chance of producing high patterned babies.



Color – The jungle gene can act like steroids for the color of the offspring.



Creamyness – This is the best trait of all in my opinion. If the seller can’t tell you what this is than they have never seen a nice jungle.



I am not sure if I mentioned this already but super jungles are NOT sterile. Also, make sure you get well outcrossed offspring. Be willing to pay for them though because when you do your research you will find that they are hard to come by.



Steve Ihrig – sdi

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