Actually it's worse than that, mine where only possible het pieds. So my experience may not be useful at all except to raise the question based on the problems seen in other species as to if problems are seen in piebald ball pythons.Originally Posted by Serpent_Nirvana
As far as problems in hets vs. homozygous that is also a very interesting question. I heard from one person that het caramels are also often kinked. I've not heard this from others and in fact have heard the opposite; that it's only the homozygous caramels where the kinking is seen in a het and homo mixed clutch.
Also, both of my animals where several years old before I noticed any problems. Even if people kept records and where willing to report it would be very hard to get an idea if certain morphs tended to be shorter lived than normals due to the long normal ball python life span. But it would be interesting to know which founder animals are still alive. I think Bob Clark's original albino was stolen, right? Was it ever recovered? I understand that the original clown and spider where both imported 20 years ago, are they still around? Most other founders would be much younger.
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