hi i recently had an opportunity to purchase a female san francisco garter snake [tetrataenia] i passed on the opportunity on two counts the first was that i could not afford it, the second was the concern that i heard that they are not
as robust as they should be due to their limited genetic diversity her in Europe.
the above facts did not stop me drooling over the idea of owning some beautiful but healthy san frans.
my knowledge of genetics is woeful, so my idea such as it is, would be to breed the female san fran to a male melanistic eastern, my theory [and thats all it is] is that he would bring the required vigour to the young, but being recessive he would not pass on his genes; and thereby stop the young from being intergrades then i started thinking well if he does not pass on his genes perhaps he might not pass on the required vigour thats needed and perhaps they would still be classed as intergrades it was at this point i developed a thumping headache, this heavy thinking cant be good for your health, im off to get some aspirin your input would be appreciated but please use words with not to many syllables [ remember my headache ]