Anyone ever cross tetrataenia with blotched ssp. (infernalis, concinnus, parietalis)

[anji1971]

[quote=G-natrix;30731] .....and flood the market with tets -- in fact, they should give them away for free.......

Hey, free snakes are the only kind I'm allowed to have for a while, so it sounds great to me!!!! especially if I could get one as pretty as tetrataenia!!!

[Bay_area]

Finally, I would think the best way to stave off poachers would be for the government to embark on a massive captive breeding program and flood the market with tets -- in fact, they should give them away for free. That would suck for people who like tets because they're rare, but that's THEIR problem. It would be great for all of us who like tets because they're pretty.

that sounds like my step daughters aurgument for marijuanaLOL!

Sounds like you know the area pretty good G-natrix, do you live in Nor*Cal?

I think that the government should allow some type of captive breeding & release program to where the habitat has been restored. They did that with the condors, why not snakes? Anyhow, I already know their response to such a program.

[RZL36]

I would be into New Jersey letting me release northern pine babies (which I totally don't have). I don't get how a perfectly healthy captive bred snake, supplementing a threatened wild population, could adversely impact the environment. Maybe I should just reach out to the state and ask if they could give me some permissions. I would handle it from there.

As for hybridization of snakes, it doesn't bother me. I think it would be cool to make things that have never been done before. Subspecies intergrade all the time in the wild.

I personally think breeding my Florida blues with my marcianus (just got at Hamburg. Got a super pretty radix too) could produce some really pretty specimens. I'm not looking to make a fortune off of them. I just want to try something and see what happens. I'll sell what I can for dirt cheap and then release the rest. I'm not seeing a downside. There are plenty of minnows to eat and our snake population went from me seeing a garter snake once a week, to me not seeing one in 8 years.

[zooplan]

The government needs more time to develope new ideas.
Much more than people need for the same.
While they are developing it would be nice, useful, practical.....
to build up a strong and save population here.
European breeding had to start from a very small group of inbred specimens.