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I've heard of an emoryi being crossed with a corn snake but has anyone successfully bread a leucistic texas rat snake to a corn snake. Is it even possible?

My guess would be probable. But whats the point? IMO can't see where the offspring would be any improvement over either species.

Frank
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and many even more distant crosses have been done, lampropeltis X guttata, pituophis X obsoleta, pituophis X guttata, climacophora X guttata, etc. I recently remember seeing leucistic rat X pituophis (I think it was a gopher snake). Now for the most part there isn't a big advantage to mixing most of these species (of course many would disagree with me on this). There's not a very big following for them and often they don't turn out all that well.

With respect to transferring the leucistic gene to other species by hybridization, here's my thought. A leucistic snake is extremely striking in appearance. I like them a lot. But I don't think there's much difference between a leucistic rat and a leucistic corn or leucistic bullsnake (except for the size). So unless you're trying to make a much smaller or much larger leucistic snake I don't see the reason for a hybrid.

Best regards
John

Yes it has been done. I believe they call it a "pearl" corn... Corn are the genetic trash cans for hybridization(sp?)
It is a pitty. I am not necessarily against hybrids but with so many breeders mixing genes way too many are sold as pure.
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