Seeing those pics posted a few days ago of the ball x blood crosses got me thinking about something. They looked pretty cool. Not sure why the price tag was so much. But I was wondering if traits from balls could be bred into crosses like that. Like if you bred a pastel ball to a blood, would you get the same odds when just breeding 2 balls? Like would you get pastel ball x bloods? Or since they're 2 different species, would the trait not carry over? Also, is that a pretty difficult thing to accomplish crossing the 2 species? Possibly why they were labeled as $10,000? I'm just curious. I think animals like that are pretty useless for the propagation of a species since they're mutts but they are cool looking. If I had 10 grand, I'd spend it on pure animals. Anyway, this seemed like an interesting subject to me. Anyone have any comments/insight? Thanks. Ryan.
Reptile & Amphibian Forums
Welcome to kingsnake.com's message board system. Here you may share and discuss information with others about your favorite reptile and amphibian related topics such as care and feeding, caging requirements, permits and licenses, and more. Launched in 1997, the kingsnake.com message board system is one of the oldest and largest systems on the internet.
Question about Ball X Blood.
Replies (4)
I cant see why most genetic traits would not be carried over. Yah I always thought 10k was alot too. I am sure they are not too hard to breed. I do believe he has bred the babys togeather now aswell, producing even more extreme looking ones. $10k neat??? Not to me. I would have a hard time paying over $100 for one.
Ben
that the traits would not carry over. Different genes may be affected. An example of this would be breeding two different albino kingsnakes and getting hets for each trait. You might be able to get pastels, but I would doubt that breeding an albino ball to an albino blood would produce albinos. It wouldn't be until the second gen you would start seeing the recessive traits.
Cole Maas
It could go either way. For example, there are two independent albino mutant genes in the black rat snake. One produces albinos when crossed with an amelanistic (= albino) corn snake. The other albino produces normal-looking double heterozygous types when crossed with an amelanistic corn snake.
Dominant and codominant mutant genes would probably show in the first generation.
Paul Hollander
http://www.chondroweb.com/DrFrankenstein/BloodBall.htm
someone else could figure out how to post he he
