I’m seeing milksnake x kingsnake hybrids listed in the milk snake category and I can hardly stand it.
I sincerely wish all cross-species hybrids had their own section, but I know there’s a lot of nuance there. Breeding a pacific gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer annectans) to a bullsnake (P. c. sayi) isn’t technically, at this time in taxonomy, a cross species hybrid, but most folks would consider it a cross. Additionally, taxonomy in many groups is in flux due to new phylogenetic DNA sequencing results being published regularly and, thereby, re-classifying lots of different forms in the process. It’s tricky for sure.
I don’t have a good answer, but there is a lot of opportunity for misunderstanding among beginner hobbyists, which could lead to unintended hybridization and total loss of natural history lineage.
How does one properly care for a hybrid snake born from one snake native to a humid environment bred to a snake native to a desert environment? What are the temps and humidity ranges for that animal? Guesswork is the answer.
This is a sticky problem, I’m playing necromancer here and raising a dead thread. Not to cause controversy, but because I was trying to look at milksnakes, not x-rando-snakes and I honestly don’t know all the trade names of every hybrid, who does? I really wish I could propose a solution, but I have a bias that mightn’t fly.