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Thread: Has anybody seen a Col. and Arg. TEGU X? Is it possible?

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    Default Has anybody seen a Col. and Arg. TEGU X? Is it possible?

    Has anybody crossbred a Columbian and a argentine tegu or a Tegu with anything else, If so lets see some pix. :D

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    I remember reading a conversation that came down to this and the only answer that stuck in my mind was " who would want to " .....lol.

    because of the size difference I don't see how it would really be possible. on that note let me just say I have no breeding experience.

    this is interesting. let's see if anyone does know.
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    I think anything is possible now a days :lol:

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    They have crossed milks and corns

    Boas and pythons

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    i would love to have an arg. col cross
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    Here's my half-brained understanding of it....

    Some species can produce a hybrid cross and some can't because the alleles don't match up. Simply put, an allele is one of the pair needed to make a gene.

    Some reptiles can be bred together because they are similar genetically, but they have to be tricked. The male of one species is placed with a female of the same species. As they get ready to mate, the female is switched out for another species. The males are so 'ready' they don't seem to notice that someone has switched their girl. I have a feeling this is what would be necessary for a Colombian Arg mating. Of course, that's assuming the Arg female doesn't eat the Colombian male first!

    Some reptiles simply can't be bred together. Boas (live bearers) can't be bred to pythons (egg layers), and iguanas can't be bred to geckos, etc.
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    i dunno about boas and pythons. i can see milks and corns because they are pretty similar, both rat snakes and colubrids.

    i don't know much about breeding, husbandry or any of that, but can you mate a large col. with a medium sized tegu...?

    that would be sweet if you could mix a tegu and a Uromastyx 8O

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    i do believe that even a female arg would be much bigger than a male columbian. with that difference alone i would think would stop that idea. but like anglerose said, who would want to. hybrids are considered bad to alot of keepers. they see it as a mudding of the gene pool that is arlready limited in this country.
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    Boas and pythons have been crossed before But I don't think it lasted that long, I met the man who did it and he owns two petcos now because he sold them

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    Really? What did he cross? I didn't think they matched up...genetically that is....
    Laura R (FL)
    1.0.0 Colombian Tegu
    1.4.0 Argentine B&W Tegu
    1.2.0 Red Tegu
    1.2.0 B/WxRed Tegu
    1.0.0 Green Ameiva (yet another teiid)
    7 other lizards
    1 little gator
    3 FL box turtle
    1 Sulcata tortoise
    16 snakes
    5 fuzzy pets
    4 little frogs
    a bunch of creepy bugs
    and a partridge in a pear tree

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