Temps and humidity affecting pattern

Maybe it's because everyone says varying temps can lead to deformities and death? I let my female maternally incubate her first clutch and caught a lot of heat from people who didn't support incubating at fluctuating temperatures...

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Originally Posted by RegiusCo.com

The rumor out there is that African breeders are purposely manipulating temps and humidity in order to hatch those wacky patterned CH imports we are seeing every year.

We all have a few dinkers hoping to prove out, if this is the case, we should be hatching out many nice normals.

Any thoughts?

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if the temperature and humidity levels are manipulating the appearance of the hatchlings then i would think that their phenotype is not genetically inheritable and is unique to that animal alone due to those specific levels.

so if they look the way they do because of "not normal" temp and humidity levels during incubation, would breeding two "not normal" incubation level bps together get you "not normal" looking balls from their clutch at "normal" incubation levels.

or if you were to incubate their eggs at "not normal" incubation levels and got not normal hatchling then is it because of an inheritable gene or "not normal" incubation levels???

i think if the appearance of an animal is manipulated by some incubation technique then the phenotype is not inheritable and just a reaction to the incubation process.

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Originally Posted by bigballs

i think if the appearance of an animal is manipulated by some incubation technique then the phenotype is not inheritable and just a reaction to the incubation process.

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I think that is what he was saying here:

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Originally Posted by RegiusCo.com

We all have a few dinkers hoping to prove out, if this is the case, we should be hatching out many nice normals.

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Originally Posted by Jerhart

and if there is a guy over there doing this, and it IS affecting his results...what can ya do about it? :hmm::2cent:

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Stop buying from Africa and buy exclusively from Breeders here in the states that do not import :gj:

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Originally Posted by RegiusCo.com

The rumor out there is that African breeders are purposely manipulating temps and humidity in order to hatch those wacky patterned CH imports we are seeing every year.

We all have a few dinkers hoping to prove out, if this is the case, we should be hatching out many nice normals.

Any thoughts?

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I would think that it is possible to produce genetic defects by manipulating temps / humidity.. Simply because you are playing with the environment when the snakes are in a very fragile state. Some "bad" gene replication early in development and bam you have a new morph.. However not every odd pattern will be genetic.. just think about it, all these morph's are coming from somewhere. You never know how/when you could unlock something!

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Originally Posted by addsdad

I think that is what he was saying here:

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im sorry but i dont see how those two statements are related...

i was reflecting on my thoughts about the mentioned rumour as was asked by Marc.

maybe you didnt understand what i was trying to say?