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I know this has been beaten to death probably. But, I see them advertised in the classifieds and I was curious if they were second generations or f2's or whatever and if a pair could be bred back to each other or if the initial process of hybridizing(?) has to be repeated every time to get those particular patterns. Some of them aren't cheap and to me aren't worth the money if they can't reproduce.

It is true that while some hybrids can not breed to make offspring, some hybrids can and will produce. I can't speak for colubrids. But I do know someone that had some trouble with bat eaters(reticxburm).

He told me that he suspected one of his males was sterile. The male had been placed with three different females; one bat eater, one retic, and one burm. None became gravid.

Although, N.E.R.D. has produced jungle retics(bateaterxretic). Also, I belive That some one named Yasser has a 88% diamondxcarpet python. Another example is Brandon Osborne's attempt at breeding a green tree python and a dimondxcarpet python together.

I hope you enjoyed my reply, and found it helpful.

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Some are less fertile than others. I've had more infertility with any hybrid that has Albino Ruthveni in it. Most others appear to be fertile for generations. Some however such as Bull x Calf King in my opinion tend to show genetic problems in later generations such as stunting.

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