Expert: Mark Adkins - 8/13/2007

Question
Red eared sliders + painted = ?

Red eared sliders + map = ?

Red eared sliders + cooter = ?

Red eared sliders + slider = ?

Painted + Red eared sliders = ?

Painted + Cooter = ?

Painted + map = ?

Painted + slider = ?

map + Cooter = ?

map + red eared slider = ?

map + painted = ?

map + slider = ?

slider + map = ?

slider + cooter = ?

slider + Red eared slider = ?

slider + Painted = ?

cooter + map = ?

cooter + slider = ?

cooter + Red eared slider = ?

cooter + Painted = ?



PLease answer my question asap. Thany

Answer
Most of those cannot crossbreed.

Sliders are the genus Trachemys, Cooters are Psuedemys, Painteds are Chrysemys, and Maps are Graptemys and you cannot generally breed across genera lines.

The only crosses that work on this list are the Red-ears and other sliders. Red-ears are Trachemys scripta elegans- a subspecies of the Yellow-Belly Slider Trachemys scripta scripta. Any T. scripta species can, in theory, crossbreed. This includes the Yellow-belly, Red-ear, Venezuelan, Grays, Ornate, Cumberland, and a few others.

Crossing one species of slider with another, such as the Yellow-belly T. scripta with another, like the Brazilian, T. adiutrix is trickier- it MAY work, but not as often and the offspring will not be fertile most of the time.