Breeding Question!

[Zephyr]

Can you breed two related snakes (brother-sister)? Will their babies be healthy?

[Elliot]

You could maybe get away with it for a few generations, but I would steer clear of inbreeding if I were you.

[adamanteus]

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]

do they look different than ones in the wild in california?
[look at the European tetrataenia! [/quote]

[Elliot]

do they look different than ones in the wild in california?
[look at the European tetrataenia!

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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]

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 can´t conserve them by crossing and outcrossing with other similar looking garters.
European ´tetrataenias had very low fertility and bad health for some generations untill some breeders tried to find couples from differrent lines.