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gfishburn
Snake Mite

United Kingdom
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Posted - 26/03/2009 :  19:47:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi there,

I have an adult pair of Western hognoses and am purchasing a tri-coloured male in a couple of weeks.

Does anyone know if you can breed a tri-coloured to a western hognose and if you can, what is the likely outcome of the hatchlings?

Is it similar to Royals where you have 50/50 chance of visual tri-coloured or are they classed as a seperate species and would I be better getting a female to go with him instead?

Apologies for ignorance, I'm fairly new to hognoses.

Cheers

Bigdave
Snake Mite

United Kingdom
46 Posts

Posted - 27/03/2009 :  16:05:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
westerns and tri colours are totally separate species and I believe are incompatable with each other for breeding purposes
westerns are from North America wheras tricolours are from south america
very much parallel evolution

Western Hognose 5.8.1
Tri colour hognose 1.2.0
Blonde Madagascan Hognose 1.1.0
Giant Madagascan Hognose 0.1.0
Bull 1.1.0
Common Boa 1.1.0
Royal Python 1.1.1
Corns Butter1.1 Snow Sripe 0.1 Caramel 4.1
Abbots 0.1 Anery Aztec 0.1.0 Lavender stripe 0.0.1 Stripe Corn 0.2
Amel stripe 1.0 Crimson 1.0 Normal 4.4.0 Charcoal 0.1.0 Ghost 0.3
Bloodred 0.1 Snow 1.2
Hypo 0.1


3.7.0 leopard gecko
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon
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magneticblue
Hognose Moderator

189 Posts

Posted - 27/03/2009 :  20:56:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I wouldn't be suprised if they could breed with each other, after all corns can breed with kings and burmese pythons can breed with royals etc. But you would be left with hybrids. That then may cause a problem if you intend to sell them as you would have to state that they are hybrids and therefore they may not sell at all and you'll be left with several hatchlings that you may have to care for for the rest of their lives. In my opinion you would be better off getting another hoggie of the same species to pair up.



1.2.0 Guyana red-tail boas (Hercules, Athena and Aphrodite)
1.0.0 Arizona Mountain Kingsnake (Sylar)
0.1.0 Blotched Kingsnake (Jasmin)
0.3.0 Cats (Lynx, Maizzi and Millie)
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Mallers
Snake Mite

United Kingdom
6 Posts

Posted - 02/02/2012 :  13:19:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello you can't breed western Hognose with Tri colour due to being 2 different species hope this helps thanks
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ian14
Snake Mite

15 Posts

Posted - 05/04/2012 :  09:06:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
They are not just two different species, they are two different genera. The python hybrids are very hard to produce, and they are different species of teh same genus. The corn/rat/king/pit crosses all work because they are very closely aligned with each other in evolutionary history.
Tri colours are Lystrophis, westerns are Heterodon. They will not breed together.
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