Bearded dragon + Gecko = Becko???

[mickeysmomma]

WAs out with Louie tonight, and someone told me their cousin was getting a "becko"...supposedly a cross between a beardie and a gecko?

Anyone ever heard of this?? Seen one??

 

[jon21388]

this is very interesting haha

 

[HKzForDayz]

Very unlikely. There has been very little success in breeding of hybrids, and the eggs are usually infertile when they do breed. and the very few succesful hybrid hatchlings usually die within a few day. and these are usually just crossbreeds of geckos like fat tail x leopard. the chances of a bearded dragon and a leopard breeding, laying fertile eggs, having a hatchling , and then that hatchling surviving, are very very very slim. if i was to guess a number probability, it would be a lot of spaces to the right of a zero and decimal point , but an interesting idea, what would that look like.

 

[jeserah]

Bahahahaha!
Those two species don't even share the same suborder! It would be like us mating with... i dunno, a manitee or something like that. They are waaaay too distantly related to have offspring. I doubt their reproductive organs would even "work out", if you catch my drift. Even through the advancements in our genetic manipulative prowess, i don't think we could achieve such a feat.

 

[Gail]

Wow, I think someone is getting ripped off.

 

[mickeysmomma]

LOL....yea, I thought this wasn't true.... I have never seen one at a reptile show, or heard of it at all.

It does give me a laugh tho

 

[jon21388]

i want one

 

[Livey]

a agree sounds like your friend is being ripped off completely !
I can't even begin to think what that would look like!

 

[jon21388]

try to get a picture of this and post it on here please for all to see

 

[HKzForDayz]

Wonder if its a silky lol

 

[paperplanes]

genetically impossible

 

[drgnfly2265]

Wow, I think someone is getting ripped off.

I was thinking the same thing. How much are they paying for it? That would be one interesting looking critter, lol :lol:

 

[HKzForDayz]

Wonder if its a silkie lol