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Im starting a breeding project with normals and hopefully some hypos and albinos. I was just wondering if anyone has ever heard of mixing different types of sliders? like meso X nicaraguan?

Not really an answer to your question, but in one forum, I saw a photo of a breeding between a copperhead and a timber rattlesnake. Cool looking animal, but I personally prefer natural species.
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I think you may find that most of the people around here aren't very up on turtle breeding/genetics, like you might see on the corn snake or python forums. This is largely because so many people here at the RES forum have aquired their turtles as rescues or as other people's cast offs. RES especially are grossly over populated in the pet trade and there are many rescues exploding with the RES of uninformed owners that didn't expect them to grow so big, or other such issues.

So, most of us don't do much breeding....this also why, when people post that their turtle had eggs and what should they do with them, responses often say to destroy them unless you are convinced you can house an entire hatching of eggs, or can find them all homes (legally).

Good luck with your project!

Why?

I wouldn't.

Sure it might seem kinda interesting to see what you'd get but it's not fair to the critter if you get something totally messed up.

Why? To sell, duh.

What makes you think youd get something messed up? Mess-ups happen much more witht the common inbreeding techniques than cross breeding.

-snake breeder.

Sounds like you are in it for the wrong reason. If you are out to just make something to sell, I wouldn't even bother. You probably wouldn't make money on it either.
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Here, check this out http://www.turtletimes.com/Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17776
There's a few pics of a Common Map x RES hybrid. I assume, if a map and res can produce a hybrid, crosses between different types of sliders is deffinately possible. Crossing a meso and nicaraguan would just be like crossing a res with a ybs which happens quite often.
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3 Dobermin Pinschers
4 African Grey Parrots
1 Lesser Sulfer-Crested Cockatoo
3 Cockatiels
1 Male Iguana
1 Female RES
1 Juvi YBS
1 Juvi Northern Red-Belly Slider
1 Flying Fox
1 Pleco.
Dozens of Platies

heres the issue...you want to permenantly taint the genes of the two groups of turtles for a small profit and ruin millions of years of evolution? None of us are god...we care for animals not design them