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What types of snakes would it be possible to breed northern water snakes to? Are they compatable with any besides other water snakes?

well... you can try corns, garters, rats, and maybe kings, milks and hognose.
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You can't breed egg laying snakes to the ones that have live can you?

AFAIK, breeding live bearer to live bearer is generally easier than live bearer to egg layer.

Water boas (Eunectes murinus) are live bearers. That's a hybrid that people don't see every day. I haven't been following the hybrid prices, but my guess is that a water snake x water boa hybrid would sell for much more than a Nerodia sp. x Nerodia sp. hybrid.

Good luck.

Paul Hollander

So is what your saying, that a rat snake could possibly be bred to a bci?

What your saying is that pretty much any snake can be bred to any other type of snake?

>What your saying is that pretty much any snake can be bred to any other type of snake?

I'm saying that we can TRY to breed any snake to any other type of snake. Some crosses will be successful, and others will not. At one time I thought that it would be impossible to cross a gopher snake with a king snake. It turned out to be possible. Now I just say that (IMHO) some crosses have a low probability of success.

I haven't heard of any BCI x rat snake or water snake x water boa or water snake x corn snake crosses. IMHO, those crosses have a low probability of success. But if somebody pulls one of them off, I'd sure like to see the babies.

Corn x gopher, Burmese x retic python, etc. crosses are being done so often that they are boring. IMHO, anybody who wants a hotshot reputation in hybrid breeding circles now will have to pull off a cross with a lower probability of success.

Paul Hollander

Are there special procedures that you go through to get these snakes to breed or is it just like 2 snakes of the same species? Which is the hard part, getting them to breed? or having offspring from it?

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