Hi.. i'm looking for any information that might shed some light on a recent pairing that ended badly. Last October I purchased a Cinnie Lesser het Lavender albino female and a Hidden gene woma granite het lavender albino male to pair up. All was going well and the female laid 5 healthy looking eggs with no slugs. I duly incubated the eggs at 89 degrees with humidity of 90%. I briefly aired the egg box once a week. The eggs much to my excitement all remained healthy looking and followed the usual progression upto day 60. To cut a long story short.. the outcome was that 4 of the offspring were kinked with sharks mouth and didn't make it out of their eggs. One hatched and was fine. The surviving hatchling appears to be a lesser granite. One of the deformed offspring was a lavender albino and the other 3 i'm not sure what they were.
My question is whether this is known to be a fatal combination of genes or just bad luck on my behalf.
Any comments are welcome.
If nothing else I thought I should flag this up for others. Knowledge is power.
Regards
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