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Post by mags on Mar 13, 2006 13:42:57 GMT
can an albino margie and a normal margie mate ? and have babies i have 1 adult normal margie and 1 adult albino margie just wondering if they will breed thanks mags  |
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Post by LisaLQ on Mar 13, 2006 13:50:47 GMT
Yep they should be able to. I dont know whether you'd get albinos out of them though, someone posted about it on the breeding board I think?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2006 17:01:03 GMT
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Post by apple on Mar 13, 2006 19:10:59 GMT
I have an albino margie, with pink apex and an orange collumella, it is a crossbreed ( suturalis-ovum)? He can cross with normal ovum?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2006 19:12:55 GMT
I have an albino margie, with pink apex and an orange collumella, it is a crossbreed ( suturalis-ovum)? He can cross with normal ovum? yes I don't see why not |
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Post by apple on Mar 13, 2006 19:19:53 GMT
Because he could be infertile...
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 13, 2006 19:24:44 GMT
theres no reason why he should be infertile
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Post by Paul on Mar 13, 2006 19:35:53 GMT
I have an albino margie, with pink apex and an orange collumella, it is a crossbreed ( suturalis-ovum)? He can cross with normal ovum? I'm not sure a margie having a pinkish spire guarantees it is a crossbreed, certainly possible, perhaps even likely in this case if you have reason to believe it may be. Normal marginata can have a pink spire. |
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Post by apple on Mar 13, 2006 19:53:31 GMT
theres no reason why he should be infertile I thought that when you crossbreed two different species ( or suturalis isn´t a different specie, just a different subespecie?), the babies that result from that, could be infertile. About your answer Paul, I´m not sure now, if it is indeed a crossbreed, once that normal ovum can have a pink apex too ( according to what you said)... |
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Post by Paul on Mar 13, 2006 19:56:36 GMT
Because he could be infertile... If you mean because some crossbreeds can be infertile, we're not sure this is the case in snails as a whole, but certainly in crossbreeding between variants that's no problem if they can physically manage it. The variants are standardised differences of appearance by location really. It's like brown stick insects from one area, mating with smaller green ones from a different area. Both the same species, but we call them different names because in one area they tend to be greener and smaller than the other area. |
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Post by sezzy5889 on Mar 13, 2006 19:59:57 GMT
suturalis, ovum and var. marginata are all the same species just different sub-species so they have no problem breeding with eachother, different species have trouble cross breeding but not sub-species
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2006 20:07:05 GMT
yeah actual hybrids (the product of two different species) are usually infertile.
but the margie variants are hardly different at all.
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Post by apple on Mar 13, 2006 20:08:16 GMT
Thank you all.
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