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Zephyr
12-03-2007, 07:55 PM
Can you breed two related snakes (brother-sister)? Will their babies be healthy?
Elliot
12-03-2007, 08:05 PM
You could maybe get away with it for a few generations, but I would steer clear of inbreeding if I were you.
adamanteus
12-03-2007, 08:23 PM
Inbreeding happens all the time in our hobby.....look at the European tetrataenia! But after a while it does become unhealthy and produces weaker babies. First and second generation inter-breeding shouldn't be a problem though.
EdgyExoticReptiles
12-03-2007, 08:57 PM
do they look different than ones in the wild in california?
[look at the European tetrataenia! [/quote]
Elliot
12-03-2007, 09:25 PM
do they look different than ones in the wild in california?
[look at the European tetrataenia! [/quote]

I don't think that they look different, it's just that there weren't very many to start with, so they had to interbreed to get the subspecies going over there.
zooplan
12-03-2007, 11:03 PM
new garter morphs can only be developed by inbreeding.
subspecies or local forms are a kind of morphs with multilpe different gens, some are visual, some are hidden, so you canīt conserve them by crossing and outcrossing with other similar looking garters.
European ītetrataenias had very low fertility and bad health for some generations untill some breeders tried to find couples from differrent lines.