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I would like to house a 3 stripe female we got in with a male and female miss. mud in a fairly large shallow pond land area. But not if the miss male will breed with the three stripe and result in viable offspring. Thanks for any help.

If they do interbreed, can I move the male miss mud in with a pond that has yellow mud females? Again I do not want any interbreeding.

Many turtle species that look more or less similar may interbreed. Even species that are genetically quite far apart (there are many examples, such as the seemingly extreme red-eared slider x Reeves', or Cuora flavomarginata x Geoemyda japonica). So no, I would not risk keeping your male with the female yellow muds. Saying that, I am keeping a three-striped pair together with a loggerhead musk, and he is not the least interested. All of these 2 females' many offspring were 'pure'. When I introduced my red-cheek male to a mixed-species female tank, however, I had to intervene and force him off a three-striped female just before he penetrated...just in time!

It could happen. I kept common musks with Stripe-necks and got intergrades from those.