Common Snapper x Alligator Snapping Turtle??

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Zfishies;5117311; said:
^i know that am going to go by trial and error. if any agression starts ill remove them. hopefully after introducing them so many times they might breed.
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You clearly don't understand how snapper aggression (or really aggression in any turtle species) works. Often by the time it takes place, it's already too late. They don't paw at each other or give angry looks. You're essentially playing with fire.

Many breeders keep males and females of even docile species apart from each other, as aggression can be severe. They'll usually put the together for a couple days, monitor the mating process closely, and separate them after the deed is done a few times. Remember, this is the practice for many of the more docile turtles.

Now consider the amount of time it would take for your turtles to mate (an event that, as far as history is concerned, has never happened) and the sheer odds of them doing so even were they together 100% of the time. Now consider that you may not be able to keep them together 24/7, or even half that time, or even a fraction of that time. The chance of it happening drops exponentially.

Also, you'd have to have a mighty big enclosure to safely monitor two adult snappers of either species. And in a pond, you simply can't safely monitor the process. So you're just gonna throw them in, and hope for mating (severely unlikely) and no fatalities (substantially more likely). It just seems like a pipe dream.

Josh H
 
When I throw them into the pond I can clearly see the bottom of the pond. I over filter all my ponds to make sure of it.and I will try to make it big as possible for there territories not colide
 
Instead of asking if you could maybe you should stop and ask if you should. It would be impossible anyway, the two species arent closely enough related and dont share much other then being in the same family. It would be like you breeding with a orangutang. If attempted, and chances are you wont(if im getting all this your a kid and will loose interest/mature before the turtles grow to breeding size) one of the animals will no doubtingly be injured.

Also, its not responsible creating hybrids. Lots of medical issues come out of hybridization. Instead of thinking about whats cool, think about whats best for the animal.
 
hey good luck with it it would be a sweet if you could get it to work!
 
A friend in North Arkansas has a small pond. He had to drain it several years ago and cleaned it out completely. Over the next several years he stocked it with all the female alligator snappers he found during the breeding season. He didn't say how many but several. He did not find any males as they rarely come out on land. He did however find a large male common snapper on one of his trips to his property, He put that male common in the pond. He is a business man in Memphis and his trips to the pond became less frequent, after several more years he discovered some small uncommon looking snappers in the pond. One had very characteristic alligator snapper, and common snapper features. He raised it for several years and even had it looked at by the staff at the Memphis Zoo I believe. They could not rule out the possibility of it's being a hybrid. Unfortunately the animal died and he took no pictures of it. He has been collecting for decades and clearly knows the differrences in the turtles, too bad a picture was never taken.
 
Chances of the two being able to breed is slim to none, the two different genus diverged from each other almost 10 million years ago making them totally different species and DNA testing has shown that its impossible
 
4202cvinc said:
A friend in North Arkansas has a small pond. He had to drain it several years ago and cleaned it out completely. Over the next several years he stocked it with all the female alligator snappers he found during the breeding season. He didn't say how many but several. He did not find any males as they rarely come out on land. He did however find a large male common snapper on one of his trips to his property, He put that male common in the pond. He is a business man in Memphis and his trips to the pond became less frequent, after several more years he discovered some small uncommon looking snappers in the pond. One had very characteristic alligator snapper, and common snapper features. He raised it for several years and even had it looked at by the staff at the Memphis Zoo I believe. They could not rule out the possibility of it's being a hybrid. Unfortunately the animal died and he took no pictures of it. He has been collecting for decades and clearly knows the differrences in the turtles, too bad a picture was never taken.
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I don't buy it. With something that uncommon, a picture would have been taken, especially by a zoo.
 
This^.. I find it hard to believe that no one took a picture of it, especially the zoo.
 
methos75 said:
Chances of the two being able to breed is slim to none, the two different genus diverged from each other almost 10 million years ago making them totally different species and DNA testing has shown that its impossible
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am not trying to diss u or anythin but they said that same statement with the sheepXpig hybrid
 
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