Non-spider morphs and head tilt

[yeahyeah]

I was told by a breeder that a lot of morphs have the head tilt. Has anyone else found this to be true? Does the head tilt get passed on? Is this a result of heavy inbreeding?

NOTE: I am not talking about spiders. We all know about their wobble and head tilt problems.

[elevatethis]

Its not unique to spiders at all. I've seen more than a few normals that exhibit the same behaviors.

I don't think that it is a problem associated with inbreeding. If that was the cause, then you'd probably see most of your recessive-trait morphs showing stuff like that. They don't.

I have a female with equilibrium issues that laid last year, and all her offspring were completely normal.

Not sure what the cause is. Could be random, incubation-related, who knows?

[ama1997]

My YB male did it a little the wobble. When I first got him when I would feed him or pick him up. Not sure if it was just because he was a baby and being kind of twitchy. Or something else. He doesnt do it anymore.

[Adam_Wysocki]

I have a het albino girl that does the loops like some spiders do.

I've also seen CH normal babies that do it.

-adam

[Bruce Whitehead]

I have 3 snakes that loop de loop at night. Not consistently, but it is there... one that did when he was younger, but has since quit.

One codom, one het recessive, and one normal. First two are males, the second a female.

I have not seen a spider wobble to know exactly what that looks like in person, and none of these snakes exhibited it to a huge degree, but it was the up the side of the tub, spin over in a 360, come back, repeat...

Bruce

[Bristen]

I have a het albino girl that does the loops like some spiders do.

I've also seen CH normal babies that do it.

-adam

I have noticed similar behavior in a few CH's here as well... I seem to think that they possibly had light neurological damage during the shipping or the stress was enough to make them pop? I think the frequency in non-spiders would be way less often though.

Regards,
Bristen.