Re: Eyeless Piebald Clutch
They have all finally come out of the egg yesterday. Took longer than normal but I guess that is to be expected with the situation. So all in all we ended up with 3 pieds with no eyes, 2 with one eye, and 1 that is perfectly normal. One of the eyeless pieds also has a slight deformity to it's mouth and also acts a little weird so I am pretty sure something else is going on inside this guy and unfortunate I don't see it doing well. The really high white eyeless one is actually a very active snake. When I had it out for the quick pictures it really didn't want to sit still. just was exploring around which I am hoping this is a good sign that it will thrive. If we get this guy to eat he will be a keeper for sure. I guess the good thing is they all came out on their own and all are good healthy weights and seem to be doing well at the moment. I hope that this continues. Despite their deformities they are all stunning animals. Love the pied gene. No pied is the same and it's a lot of fun. Below are a bunch of pictures of the clutch. Also on another good note all the Clown eggs that we had in the incubator came out of their eggs as well and look great. One of the clowns is very small and it's head is slightly misshaped. After coming out of the egg it looks like it was a twin but the other one died very early on in incubation and this is probably why it is the way it is. These eggs were in the incubator the exact same time frame as the pieds so we were expecting some other issues. Glad there were not though. You can check out our website for the pictures of those guys along with other pictures of the pieds. I don't want to get too picture heavy in the thread.
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Re: Eyeless Piebald Clutch
Good luck with them :D They're beautiful
Re: Eyeless Piebald Clutch
Thought some of you guys might be interested in this update from Markus Mandic of Markus Jayne reptiles up in Canada. Ya'll aren't the only ones to produce one or no eyed snakes, so nobody needs to be ashamed of their babies. Even the big name breeders do it, but here's one that has owned up to it and is taking care of the snake. Markus really is a good dude in my book.
I basically just asked him how the snake was doing and what he thought caused the "oddity."
So, this is straight from his e-mail reply - The eyeless Bumble Bee Fire is doing great! Eats every time. I think there have always been eyeless snakes hatched but people were afraid to post them. It was a Bumble Bee Fire to Bumble Bee breeding so maybe the Spider X Spider combo had an impact. All I know is when you hatch out over 700 hatchlings a year you do get a few oddities.
Here's a link to the original article about his eyeless guy - http://www.worldofballpythons.com/ar...en-you-see-it/
