Hatchling with Enlarged Eyes...UPDATE

Thanks for all the kind words. :)

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Originally Posted by muddoc

Thanks for the update Jessica, and the story. I hatched one just like that this year. He is now about 8 months old now, and still eating and pooping. His eye swelling has never completely gone away, but it gets smaller and larger on it's own. It does appear to be at it's smallest point right after a shed. I will have to put up a picture of him (Poss Het Lavender Albino) and keep it updated with his progress, since it seems that everyone else with this issue, never has the luck of the animal living.

Just wanted to say this was a great thread, and I was able to learn something from it.

Thanks again,

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Your welcome :). Good to hear your little one is doing well. I look forward to following his progress too.

Oh wow that's really interesting. It will be neat to see if he other eye shed to fairly normal or not.

Very glad he's doing alright. I remember seeing that original post. He looks so unbelievably tiny! :P

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Originally Posted by SlitherinSisters

Oh wow that's really interesting. It will be neat to see if he other eye shed to fairly normal or not.

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Originally Posted by Kymberli

Very glad he's doing alright. I remember seeing that original post. He looks so unbelievably tiny! :P

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Sorry, this thread got kind of confusing. Muddoc's little guy is still doing well, our little one, Bug, had to be euthanized. :(.

Dang it! Bug, you fought so hard... :tears::tears: but in the end you were too sick to live a happy life.
thanks for giving the little guy a chance. i'm sure wherever he is he appreciates it :oops:

Sorry to hear that. :(

Is it a result of line breeding too much? I don't know about bp's but I have read that it is a common deformity from to much line breeding in many kinds of snakes. Or am I misinformed?

I honestly don't think this had to do with genetics. The parents are unrelated as far as I know. Basically his umbilical cord was wrapped around his yolk sack which most likely caused a disruption in his flow of nutrients and in turn caused him to be under developed. His eyes were just one symptom. I don't think it was an incubation issue either because all his clutch mates were perfect and did great. Also, we had another clutch in the incubator at the same time which hatched out perfect as well.


Here is a picture of his yolk left behind in the egg.

http://i859.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/IMG_3578.jpg

ok so i found this thread and thought nothing of it other than a weird deformity that must not be common as ive never seen it before but then i went to play with one of my females and oddly she has large eyes that stick out far too lol ive always thought her head was just small but no her eyes are huge