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  • 07-24-2015, 10:20 PM
    RaltsXIV
    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?
  • 07-24-2015, 11:30 PM
    sho220
    I don't see anything unusual with mom or the babies. The blushing she shows is common for normal ball pythons. Nice looking Lessers though.
  • 07-25-2015, 07:27 AM
    rlditmars
    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.
  • 07-25-2015, 07:39 AM
    OhhWatALoser
    I'd holdback the male that looks most like the dinker trait you are seeing and breed it back to mom.
  • 07-25-2015, 11:11 AM
    h00blah
    The lesser took her banded pattern and awesome blushing on the back. As mentioned before, I'd try again but with one of those combo males :gj:. If she's merely an enhancer project, I'd be plugging my enchis, fires, YBs, and clown stuff into her!!! :gj:! Still looks promising!
  • 07-26-2015, 01:23 AM
    RaltsXIV
    Well I finally got around to popping them today. Of the three lessers (one of which doesn't appear to have the mother's influence as it it as dark on the back a hatchling should be) only one appears male.

    I'll put up better pics after they shed. Could use some help picking out what if anything to hold back.
  • 08-02-2015, 07:35 PM
    RaltsXIV
    Re: Dinker project finally hatches, slightly disappointing?
    http://oi62.tinypic.com/2cwwyde.jpg

    First lesser shed out, female #5
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