can someone help.

okay i already have a ball python but in looking at another one the guy sent me a pic of it. it is a lemon pastel but i have some conserns the first one is the red spots on him that kinda looks like blood. i was wondering if anyone could tell me what it could be..and the second one is the guy said the snake has a kink by the tip of its tail could this cause any probs with the snake/breeding? thanks for your help.

pictures would help with some of the questions you are asking

Post the pictures on here and maybe we can determine what it is

Need photos, so we can see for ourselves.:D

im trying lol kinda new at this

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here is a pic.

It almost looks like part of the pattern, but I've never seen any red on a pastel before...

That is a GORGEOUS snake.

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here is one that you can see the kink in its tail. do you think this could affect breeding?

Hi,

Some of our members who are good photographers would be the best to judge. But it looks to me as though those markings are actually orange and they only look red because of either the light and camera used or some tweaking of the photo's afterwards.


dr del

I personally wouldn't breed a snake that has kinks because they can be genetic. You never know how severe the kinking could be on the hatchlings.

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Originally Posted by sarahlovesmiike

I personally wouldn't breed a snake that has kinks because they can be genetic. You never know how severe the kinking could be on the hatchlings.

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Really.. so you've consistently produce kinked offspring from a kinked parent??

More concerning to me is how thin he looks.

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Really.. so you've consistently produce kinked offspring from a kinked parent??

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Nope, just something I've picked up on from reading. I've never actually bred snakes before.

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Originally Posted by sarahlovesmiike

Nope, just something I've picked up on from reading. I've never actually bred snakes before.

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Ah well there is nothing that I have see or heard that suggest that kinks can be passed from parent to offspring, there are however Morphs that for whatever reason tend to have a higher tendency to produce kinked offspring. But it is tied to the mutation. Any animal has a risk of it. The more eggs you hatch the more of that kind of stuff you'll see.

Hope that calms your fears. Now would I ever breed a kinked animal no! But I have other reasons.


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Whether that snake has a kink of not, it sure is gorgeous!

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Ah well there is nothing that I have see or heard that suggest that kinks can be passed from parent to offspring, there are however Morphs that for whatever reason tend to have a higher tendency to produce kinked offspring. But it is tied to the mutation. Any animal has a risk of it. The more eggs you hatch the more of that kind of stuff you'll see.

Hope that calms your fears. Now would I ever breed a kinked animal no! But I have other reasons.


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Like caramels right? That makes sense. What other reasons are there? And I would also be worried about the location of the kink, it looks like it's right where his cloaca is, which I can imagine would effect breeding maybe not though.

If not for fear that the trait would be passed on, what other reason is there to not breed a kinked snake?

Hi,

Well, just as a basic guess, breeding a kinked female could cause problems with the manipulation of the follicles and eggs along the body depending on the location and severity of the kink. Or the amount of calcium needed to coat and produce the eggs could be a problem if the female leached it from her bones - wierd articulation caused by kinks and weakened bones could be a nasty double act in something designed to protect a spinal cord.

I don't know if those are valid reasons or if they are the ones Ed was thinking of - they are simply the ones that occured to me first when I read your question.


dr del

the male is the one that has the kink if i would breed him the female is 100% fine but the guy has another lemon but he said that one is under weight and that had me consernd about heath probs.