tegu eats a rattler

alex · Valued Member Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 106

I did look at it... I actually only really like snakes and turtles and have almost no interest in lizards, though I find boids pretty dull. I don't understand how you think that will prevent inbreeding. The numbers of animals we work with are just too small, especially when establishing traits. Granted, this is what insular selection often does, but we're not there to see how many species fail to adapt to sudden isolation of small populations. Look at how many German Shepard and German Shepard X's in the world there are, and then look in a veterinary text for how many syndromes start with "German Shepard Dog _____." You just can't get around that selection for specific traits is going to lead to problems, and I can't see Pete Kahl abandoning all his boas in favour of colourless, normally patterned animals that randomly assort.
I actually think your plants are going to be a much larger risk than any sort of hybridised snake. There's a lot of plants that reproduce like splitting that have literally taken off like weeds - Kentucky bluegrass being one of them. You said before you have carnivorous plants, which are a little more demanding in terms of habitat, but depending on what type of habitat your part of California has... ditto insects. Insects are nothing if not adaptable little bastards.

Slizarus · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject:

The insects are eh in terms of breeding, as far as the CP's.. adapting to bakersfield just wouldn't work.. the soil, the mineral content, the water, the temperature.. it just wouldn't work, and who's going to place these in actual bogs?
A lot of CP'ers create mini bogs, or even a few set in the ground ones, but the plants themselves find it near impossible to spread farther than the bog itself.. CP's are hardy, Drosera Capensis is a near unkillable little weed which spreads everwhere.. but have I ever seen one grow in garden soil outside? Or spread anywhere other than other CP/Orchid pots?
Not really..
The only things I could see having any kind of a chance are Darlingtonia Californica.. the cobra lilies from northern Cali which lay down runners which can even extend 20', but the growth, expanding into soils where the mineral content would burn and stunt the plant.. Meh, CP's just aren't that adaptable, atleast the majority aren't, there are few exceptions, most of which are aquatic CP's, or those pseudo CP's which have similarities, but just aren't the true things.

Anything's possible I suppose, but the likelihood of any sterile cloned cultivar of my own spreading out of control is close to nil.
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