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i know this is the CORN forum but i thought this pic was to good not to share with everyone.
adam

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hybrid breeders association
0.1.0 normal corn het hypo,anery
1.0.0 snow corn het hypo,anery,amel
1.0.0 amel corn unknown hets(4ft 8inch long)
1.0 sinacorn
1.1 kenyan sand boas
0.1 mbk
0.1 albino nelsons
0.0.1 snapping turtles
0.0.1 3 lined mud turtle

Very nice. My hybrid does not look much like a hybrid to me. She is supposed to be a tri-hybrid, with sinaloan, honduran, pueblan (Hope I got those right). Also pictured is her future mate a pure sinaloan.

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Do not compare yourself to others or You may become vain or bitter for there will always greater and lesser persons than yourself

1.1.2 bearded dragons
0.1.1 water dragons
2.4.5 leopard geckos
8.18.7 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
5.2.0 king snakes
1.0.0 royal (Ball) pythons
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
0.1.0 rat snake
1.1.0 Leucistic rat snakes
0.1.0 chilean rose hair tarantula
1.1.0 emperor scorpions
1.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrots
0.1.0 German Shepherd hybrid dog

I do like hybrids with the idea of creating something totally new looking. Much like making corn morphs.

But at some point I feel we will have so many snakes that will be so questionable. Although a lot of people keep their snakes, and keep records, I work in an old shop (40 years of doing herps), and we get stuff dropped off, or sold cheap all the times.

I do not like to carry large pythons, long story , although I really like them. I got a call one day to take a burmese only 3' long. YEA RIGHT. Like 4' baby iguanas. He caught me on a good day, plus he said he had other snakes.

Long story short as I looked in hi car I asked where the burm? Right there in the 50 breeder! I told him it was a ball python. He did not believe me because where he bought it, it was sold as a burmese.

If a ball and burm can get confused, and this is not an isolated story, the hybrids are going to be near impossible at some time.

But I do like some of the snakes produced. Maybe I should be a politician?

tom

I don't want to turn this into big thing but I wanted to say this. The little tale you just told is really a general herpiculture issue though not just a hybrid one. I would expect that this trend of miss identification will always continue so long as herp educations start at the pet shop and never goes any further.
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Adam
Hybrid Breeders Association