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I'm sure this question has been asked many times before but i am going to ask it again. I have a male granite burm and a huge female green burm. Obviously breeding them together would produce double hets. What would the double hets produce? Is there such a thing as a green granite or would they still be patternless?
Please let me know what you think because i am contemplating putting them together next year.
Thanks
Tom

Come on guys! Somebody help me out. Doesn't anyone have an opinion?

There has been one Green Granite produced, that I am aware of. Jay Owens produced this animal about a year ago in a triple het to triple het(albino, green, granite) breeding. It is worth a try, plus double hets are sweet looking anyway.

Jason

Thanks alot Jason. Glad somebody answered.
Take care

Hmmm, yes probably. Ya know what would be more fun? breeding a pure bloodline

How can you become negative towards someone for wanting to produce animals that are saught after. If one is going to become a breeder then they better be aware of what the demand is for. How successfull is a breeder going ot be if they can not produce the animals that the customers want. That would kind of like be a grocery store owner and only stocking the shelves with the items you find tasty. Not very good business now is it. I feel that it is essential for breeders to produce the animals that people want and sorry to tell you that there is a huge demand for the morphs. Now I am not saying not to breed pures also but you have to go at this marketably or you will never be remotely successfull.

And to ask the original question about what a double het to a double het would produce:
you would get
6.25% green granites
18.75% green possible het for granite
18.75% granite possible het for green
56.25% normal possible het for green and granite

That is the numbers as you would see them the actual scientific numbers are as follows:
6.25% normal burmese
12.5% het for granite
6.25% granite burmese
12.5% het for green
25% het for green and het for granite
12.5%granite het for green
6.25% green
12.5% green het for granites
6.25%green granites

My only suggestion would be to ensure that you create atleast two unrelated clutches. That way when you breed the double hets you are not breeding siblings. From all I have researched it is alright to breed offspring back to their parents but is bad to breed siblings. Hope this was a little more helpfull, Todd
Todd

For the most part, breeding pures is essentially going to throw tons of burms in adoption facilities. Normals sell cheeper, so kids buy them wanting a big snake, then get rid of them when they go to college or get too big. Morphs are more highly sought after and unfortunately for the normals tend to recieve better long term care.

>> Ya know what would be more fun? breeding a pure bloodline

somehow the rest of my message did not appear>

breeding a Granite to a Green still results in purebred Burmese, they are just 2 different colors of the same animal. Its not like breeding a Retic to a Burmese and getting a hybrid....