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bmendyk
at Sat Jan 17 00:11:42 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bmendyk ]
Now we've got the Diamond x Jungle Carpet python syndrome occurring with a species that is infrequently bred. It is sad to see that people are too "cheap" to purchase an angolan female, so they opt for the cheaper male, and cross it with the 100 dollar female ball, and what do you know, some people got lucky. I don't understand why one would do this, I think that more people should breed PURE angolans, before any thought of hybridization should come about. Now there will be these hybrids floating around, that will then be crossed back to a pure angolan, and so on, so soon, a hard-to-find species will be replaced with "mutts" and impure specimens. Just look at jungle carpet pythons- there is a very small percentage of pure jungles being bred, most are an integrade of some sort, whether it be diamond influence, or coastal carpet influence. The same thing applies here; that one b_____rd was too cheap to afford a diamond python female, so he decided to go the cheaper way and crossing it to a jungle female, and voila! look at the mutts commonly offered for sale nowadays... Crosses don't even look as good as pure jungles or pure diamonds....so why do it??
What's next? Is someone going to be too cheap to buy a female blackhead python, so instead they cross a blackhead male with a woma female?? I personally disagree with hybridizing species, especially species that are infrequently kept and bred. just my thoughts....
bob
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why??? - bmendyk, Sat Jan 17 00:11:42 2004