Time to show off my latest hybrid hisser project,
Gromphcisia mahoganitigris "Super Tiger Hog". I took one of my
G.mahoganitigris "Tiger Hog" (read more about this hybrid line
here) females and backcrossed it to a
P.vanwaerebeki "Tiger" male. This was to hopefully influence the coloration further away from that of
portentosa, and I definitely think that adding more "Tiger" genetics helped in that regard.
The males are coming out quite pale, some with minimal abdominal striping, but most with no striping. Both males and females have a nice caramel brownish stripe going down the middle of their abdomens. Females are overall darker than the males, but still lighter than most normal "Tiger Hog" females, with paler margins to their abdomens. Both sexes have a lot more high red coloration on their thoracic segments than in "Tiger Hog", and the males more consistently have a shallow anterior notch in their pronotums.
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| Male |
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| Female |
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| Pair |
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| "Tiger Hog" female (L) VS "Super Tiger Hog" female (R) |
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| "Tiger Hog" female (Bottom) VS "Super Tiger Hog" female (Top) |
Overall I'm happy with these results, and will probably do some casual line breeding over the generations, selecting for paler/more vibrantly colored adults as the generations go on. Maybe I'll even backcross them again in the future, but for now I have my sights set on more crazy hybrid projects, as well as several line breeding pure stock hisser projects as well.
Well, that does it for this post, thanks for reading, hope everyone enjoyed, and I'll see you all next time! 😉
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