MINIATURE, Minute squirt..

Borneo babies are supposed to hatch out between 55-75 grams, Pin headed runts which normally fail to thrive on the light side of that and big babies on the heavy end.. Something happened here that choked or restricted the normal growth of the embryo ? MAYBE ? She hatched at 15 grams, that's 75 % smaller than the average bear :O.. She was started on pinky mice and ate from the get go, never refusing a meal.. She hatched 5-18 2012 and is 169 grams today, where her running buddies from last year are 3-4 lbs now.. It's absolutely Crazy the size difference.. I strongly suspect she will never reach the normal size and always remain a miniature..
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She's about 125 grams here with a sibling,,
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A 2012 Oreo male and Mini as we call her
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Wow. She sure is a runt lol

Aww what a cutie!


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Aww, Mini is a dolly face!

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SO MINI! Cuteeeee

Sweet! Hope she thrives. Maybe there's something genetic? I think you should breed her.

Awww she is too cute!

1.0 Ball Pythons(Twizzler)
1.0 Cat (Loki)

Love it!

She could be the world's first dwarf blood python. Curious. . . .

OMG I NEED HER!!! :O She's so freaking adorbs!!! You must keep us posted on this little gem :D

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Sweet! Hope she thrives. Maybe there's something genetic? I think you should breed her.

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She could be the world's first dwarf blood python. Curious. . . .

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She is near a year old, eats like a pig and has shed 4 times so far.. She's gone from 15 grams to 169 grams at present.. You can bet your last dollar that all that has crossed our mind as well..

Awww, what a lil' cutie pie!

Now, I could handle a blood her size, she'd fit right in with my ball pythons. Do you worry if her size and development may have made her unsuitable for breeding?

Gale

Sweet, a Pocket Blood!

How fricken cute is she... I wants :P ... send her to me.

Was wondering the same thing in regards to her even physically being able to breed or not someday. Only shed 4 times in a year, huh? Is that normal?

She's precious Tim, super cute :)

So cute and also... if that's genetic I WANT

Dwarf Blood :o that will be market hit !!!!

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Was wondering the same thing in regards to her even physically being able to breed or not someday. Only shed 4 times in a year, huh? Is that normal?

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This type animal often goes 3-5 months before it's 1st shedding, so 4 sheds in 10 months is GOOD growth..

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She's precious Tim, super cute :)

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Angelica, Precious as the worlds largest diamond..

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So cute and also... if that's genetic I WANT

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LOL, You and a few others..;)

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Dwarf Blood :o that will be market hit !!!!

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NO doubt and I would suspect it would be a captive 1st..We love the breits and they show us the Love..:D

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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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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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..