I have a Candino male X Albino female clutch that just hatched and today when a few have come out of their eggs I saw their eyes, or lack of, in three so far.
Is this a genetic thing or a freak thing?
It is the female's first eggs, she laid 6. All 6 were good eggs, good veins when I candled them initially. I check up on them a time or two during incubation to make sure no eggs have gone bad about mid term and then about a week before they are due (to take the press and seal off the tub). 1 egg went bad and had a 3/4 developed snake, the other 5 eggs went full term and look great. The snakes look very healthy, right now they are absorbing their yolks and just hanging out. I will get a few pictures in the next couple days when they come out of their eggs but this strikes me as very odd.
I don't believe it is the incubator (Hot Box Incubator) as I have hatched out 8 other clutches and all were healthy and very fat. I keep the temperature at 90 degrees, and it stays there, I have a digital thermometer inside the incubator and the incubator itself runs on a VE-200 so I don't believe temperatures are an issue. Humidity is 100% or very close to it, the eggs are always very plump, I have never had any dimple on me, as a matter of fact, when I have cut eggs the albumin (hopefully I spelled that right) gushes out so much that we have to hold a towel up in the direction of the first puncture or it shoots out.
Please let me know what you think, I have no idea.