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I know that hybreds are a heated topic here... But I have no intent in doing this, I was just wondering... Have coastal and bredli been crossed in the states? If not are they too destint species, for it to be easly done? I was thinking that if bredli was to be crossed with and others from morielia that it would be a coastal since they have the "broadest range"...

I would bet that you can cross a bredli with any other carpet. Just because you can, though, doesn't mean it should be done.

Jake

I agree to a point... What if you are outcrossing a mutation, I was thinking what a Jagish bredli would look like. Which poses another question, if a jag (coastal) was bred to a bredli. How many generations of out crossing would it take to breed the coastal "out" of the bredli...? This is just a hypatheical thought.. Although I personaly don't think that hybridizing aussie pythons in (USA) captivity is entirely a negitive thing, at the same time I do think it is sad that I will probaly never see a true jungle carpet.. If it was done responcably there might be pure blood lines here, but on a positve side it has strenghtend the carpet gene pool...

You could never breed the coastal genes entirely out of a bredli. You could produce a snake that was 99.999999% bredli, but it would still have coastal in it, thus being impure.

Jake

np

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almost pure.
Brian