Crossbreeding?

[Pokersnake]

I have a friend who is super curious about crossbreeding Leos and African Fat Tails. I told him I'd bring up the topic here. *I am not interested in this*

I was wondering a few things:

Is it possible?
Are the offspring mules or can they breed?
Are there lasting health concerns?
Does anyone here have3 experience with this project?


Thanks!
~pokersnake~

 

[acpart]

If you do a forum search,you'll find out that it has been discussed. Here are the highlights:

--they will mate
--the eggs will likely be infertile
--if fertile, the babies will likely not live (they are too different)

Suggest to your friend that s/he googles "breeding leopards and fat tails" and I'm sure there is extensive information on the internet.

Aliza

 

[Neill]

From what i have read it has been attemped several times with no success.

 

[Alex G]

What about xbreeding to the Coleonyx?

 

[acpart]

An adult leopard gecko weighs on average 50-80 grams. An adult coleonyx weighs 15 grams. Do the math.

Aliza

 

[robin]

its like a dachshund x catahoula cross

 

[Pokersnake]

Thanks for the info all. I am discouraging him right now!

 

[Tony C]

I have a super-secret hybrid project of my own in the works, here is a sneak peek:

 

[robin]

HAHAHA

 

[Tony C]

You laugh now, wait until you see yellow-eyed abyssinian tree geckos...

 

[robin]

you wait for weinerhoulas

 

[Tony C]

Yellow-eyed abyssinian weinerhoula tree geckos?

 

[acpart]

That's one way to get a green gecko! Will you call them super emerines?

Aliza

 

[robin]

hehe

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Ohh Tony, please put me on the waiting list for a baby

 

[Alex G]

An adult leopard gecko weighs on average 50-80 grams. An adult coleonyx weighs 15 grams. Do the math.

Aliza

Oh, whoops, I completely forgot about the size difference :S All I was thinking of was the similarities in the two different species.

 

[M_surinamensis]

It'll never work Tony. Leopard geckos legs are too stumpy to achieve amplexus. Without a little squeezing, she'll never release her eggs. You'll have to try again with Agamura persica.

 

[Tony C]

It'll never work Tony. Leopard geckos legs are too stumpy to achieve amplexus. Without a little squeezing, she'll never release her eggs. You'll have to try again with Agamura persica.

Don't tempt me, there is a shop up in Portland that has one right now.

 

[BrilliantEraser]

its like a dachshund x catahoula cross

You may laugh, but we have something similar at the grooming shop I work at. He's a Corgi x Yellow Lab.

It looks like they took a Lab's body and glued on Corgi legs. Most unfortunate-looking thing ever.

The moral of the story being: if that Coleonyx REALLY wants to breed the Leopard Gecko, then they will!