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Ever considered hybridizing for other attributes other than color/pattern? For example larger clutch size or cold tolerance or something of that nature?
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Jason L. Dobry
Research Associate
College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Veterinary Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology
Washington State University
I thought it would be cool to hybridize kings with a species that doesn't musk, select the young that do not musk, and then try to selectively breed for the kingsnake pattern, to get kingsnake looking snakes that do not musk.
Don't know if that would be possible.
Oh - and I won't do it. But I think it would be cool.
I won't hybridize anything unless I get a female zonata, in which case I *may* let a male pyro have his way with her. Zonata in California has a bag limit of one, captive or wild caught. The mexican subspecies excepted, as fish and game now recognizes it as non california.
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3.0 WC; 0.2 CB L. getula californiae
0.1 WC; 10 eggs (7/11) Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata
I try to breed the floridana and other getula into other stuff because of their toughness as captives. What I look to create most is a super feeder rather than size. I generally do not like the mix of rat x king. But I do like the getula x tricolors milks. Thge rutheni , greybands, ratsnakes and Mtn kings tend to make weaker feeders. I would like to see something really crazy like a drymarchon hybrid.
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