Here is a recent picture of the parents of this clutch. The sire is on the left and the dam is on the right.
Since there have been questions about Fire, I took a picture with an adult male Fire. The sire is front left, the dam is front right, and the adult male Fire is in the back:
I don't think that either parent looks like a Fire.
I also took a picture of one of the unknown recessive hatchlings next to a 2013 Fire that I produced. Keep in mind that Fires get lighter as they age, and this 2013 Fire has had a full year of growing and shedding to get to the point where he is in this picture, while the 2014 unknown recessive has only just had her first shed. 2013 male Fire on left, 2014 female unknown recessive on right.
I think that while subtle, there are enough differences to say that this is not a Fire, especially since the parents do not look like Fires.
Here is a collage of the 9 surviving hatchlings:
Top row are 3 females all 66% het for both Albino and whatever gene this is,
Middle row is 2 females unknown 66% het Albino and a female Albion 66% het unknown
Bottom row is 1 male Albion 66% het unknown and 2 males 66% het for both Albino and whatever gene this is
This clutch started off with 11 eggs, and 1 egg had twins, but I lost 3 of the hatchlings due to a twisted umbilical chord, a large mass in 1 egg, and 1 twin was dead when I cut the clutch open. I started another thread on large masses in eggs killing hatchlings to see if anyone else has experienced this too (http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-Causing-Death).
Still open to any suggestions, and will be watching the 2 female hatchlings in question closely, especially looking at their sheds to see if they are clear (indicating Hypo).
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