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i have a female texas X baird's ratsnake, i also have a male mexmex X ruthveni kingsnake. i was wondering if i had to do anything special to get these snakes to breed with each other?

if not i guess i'll just breed her to a deckert's rat.

when breeding hybrids the game changes dramatically. their can be a lot more involved than just throwing snakes together. sometimes tricks have to be used and other times you do just put them together.
if you have never bred snakes before i would suggest that you first get the hang of breeding a specific species and really get the hang of that first(i dont know if you have or have not bred snake before) if you already have some experience then my first suggestion would be to try and introduce the two snakes and see what happens. notice how each behaves and then you will get an idea of whats needed next. sometimes you will see the male showing interest and the female wants to eat the male so you would need to first feed the female so shes not hungery and wait a day or so and then introduce a male that she is interested in to get her excited but you need to prevent that male from breeding her. once she is excited you can introduce the male that you want her to mate and hope for the best. if its the opposite you do the opposite.
sometimes both parties are uninterested and you have to excite both partners with other partners.
and in a lot of situations their may be nothing you do that could get this pair to breed.
but in almost any case you need at least 2 pair of snakes.
now with snakes that are already hybrids its a guessing game many will breed either of its parent species or may never breed at all, because the chemical senses that a snake puts off are all jumbled up in the genetics. now you have 2 different hybrids of 2 differant families(ratsnakes x kingsnakes) so you may need to trick them just as if you were breeding an f1 hybrid
hope this helps
adam jeffery
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" a.k.a. farfrumugen "
hybrid breeders association
1.1 puebladurans
1.1 sinacorns
1.1 hypo corns
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 mbk
1.1 albino corns
1.1 childrens python
1.2 ghost corns
2.2 butter(both females motley)
2.2 pyroxgreerixruthvenixalternaxcampbellixholbrooki
0.1 hypo pyroxgreerixruthvenixalternaxcampbellixholbrooki
1.0 snow corns
1.0 jurassic milk
1.0 house snake
1.0 crimson corns
0.2 albino pueblacorns
0.1 striped ghosts
0.1 anery pueblacorn
0.1 bloodred
0.1 striped albino corn
0.1 albino nelsons
0.1 anery motley
0.1 normal corn het hypo,anery
0.1 hypo tang hondo
0.1 rosy boa

i have bred many native herps in the past. i just started getting into hybrids recently so any info helps!