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i want to get a dumerils to breed with my blood nic. Would it be ok to breed these 2, and what do you think the babies would come out looking like
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Steve Irwin you changed the way people look at reptiles forever. Crocodile Hunter you will be missed.

Why ?

TnK

can't believe you want to risk a blood boa on a dumeril. If you have an extra blood laying around at your expense, holla at your boy
Bob

I just thought the paternof the dum would look sick with the bloods colors? I havent ever breed my blood before hes still small
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Steve Irwin you changed the way people look at reptiles forever. Crocodile Hunter you will be missed.

Keep in mind that Dumerils have been known to cannibalize. Someone else can tell you whether it's physically possible. As to the other post of "why?" same reason why ppl. are breeding Angolans to balls and blood pythons to balls and carpets to green trees, etc., which I guess is for financial gain.

I do not know whether anyone has ever done this cross. You might try the hybrid forum. The people there know much more about this than I do.

Getting babies out of a cross like this is iffy to start with. Getting blood boa color with Dumeril pattern is really pushing your luck, in my opinion. More or less intermediate in color and pattern is more likely, IMO. And sometimes a cross is a total bust, like the attempt to cross a cabbage and a rutabega to get a perfect food plant, with the cabbage's leaves and the rutabega's root. Instead they got the cabbage's root with the rutabega's leaves.

Paul Hollander

Not sure if that would work, same family (Boid) but different genus. Durmeril is Acrantophis dumerili and colombian boas are Constrictor imperator. Although I believe I heard of someone crossing an anaconda with a rainbow boa, so who knows.
I am personally not fond of crosses.
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