Dinker project finally hatches, slightly disappointing?
updating from an old thread from 2011. This one -----> http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...from-the-crowd!
Finally got a clutch from the not so dinkery-dinker and a lesser of mine.
All the pic links are dead so I'll put up new ones of the parents.
The female dinker as a hatchling:
http://i57.tinypic.com/o7ppok.jpg
http://i62.tinypic.com/5xif7r.jpg
When she reached adulthood:
http://i60.tinypic.com/3012gwz.jpg
The lesser sire:
http://i57.tinypic.com/a0ifis.jpg
Momma on the clutch:
http://i60.tinypic.com/2l9yqo.jpg
Clutch hatched:
http://i62.tinypic.com/24v6yag.jpg
Pics of a couple of lessers and a side shot of a normal from the clutch:
http://i58.tinypic.com/33f55zn.jpg
http://i60.tinypic.com/w9aek2.jpg
http://i60.tinypic.com/nnjri9.jpg
http://i58.tinypic.com/16a5wzr.jpg
I've never hatched lessers, so I don't know what to expect and I'm not sure this panned out. The dinker passed her blushing to at least 2 of the 4 normals in the clutch but I'm not sure if the lessers show signs or not. What do you guys/gals think? Abandon project? try a yellowbelly next year? You see anything odd in one of the lessers?
Re: Dinker project finally hatches, slightly disappointing?
If you still want to see if there may be something special floating around in the female, hold back a normal male offspring that most closely resembles the traits of Mom. Grow it up and breed it back to Mom. If you get nothing but nice normal babies then there is a pretty good chance there is nothing going on there. She's a pretty normal though and would probably be nice to put with a Firefly sometime in the future.
Re: Dinker project finally hatches, slightly disappointing?