MINIATURE, Minute squirt..

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Originally Posted by Tim Mead

But what happened ??
It was a typical clutch of full size eggs and full size babies, less her..
If the umbilical was choked or crimped wouldn't one suspect the embryo would then starve for lack of food..?
She is not the typical pin headed runt that refused to feed and perished.. She is proportionally correct and apparently so far internally correct..
I can only figure that it started at the 1st stage and made do with what it received..
Thoughts ?

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While it seems a bit unlikely, my guess would be a recessive dwarfism gene. It might just be wishful thinking, but that would be so cool!

Have you taken her for a vet check up? Any x-rays taken? I'd be curious to see her insides.

Super cool snake!

I am praying to the Snake Gods that this is genetic because it is SO CUTE AND I WANT ONE :bow::bow::bow:

The thing is how would you breed her? Since she's obviously going to be WAY smaller than the males, would that even work? Or would you have to do something like artificial insemination? And if it was genetic you'd have to try and find who had the other recessive, right?


She's something special!! :D

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Originally Posted by xFenrir

The thing is how would you breed her? Since she's obviously going to be WAY smaller than the males, would that even work? Or would you have to do something like artificial insemination? And if it was genetic you'd have to try and find who had the other recessive, right?


She's something special!! :D

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I agree! The male's hemis will be bigger than her! Perhaps you could breed her with a male BP first to see if she could even produce? Then maybe try and locate a very small male..just my .02 she is the absolute cutest lil thing tho!

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Or just take a super young male right as he reaches sexual maturity.

At 3-4 years of age I would suspect / hope she'd be in the 6-8 pound range and breeding would be a breeze.. There's been some crazy size difference in dogs, Where there's a will there's a way.. LOL, never underestimate sexual drive..;) Now for 2-3 more years of growth to find out how big she will get.. If she maintains the 25% size difference she should come close to 10 pounds before its said and done.. We of course have a brother of her's to enhance the probability..

Sorry to hijack this thread, but your 1 year olds are 3-4 lbs? My BST turns 1 this month, and she is still very small, I think. I don't have a working scale at the moment, but I can't see her weighing even 2 lbs at the moment. I picked her up at a show last October, and she was pretty skinny, but has since plumped up but not to the scale of your snakes.

The benefit of a rodent collection foot steps away..