What's this??

[J.Vandegrift]

After reading about the issues this clutch seems to be having I am wondering if incubation stress may be the cause of these strange babies.

[rabernet]

After reading about the issues this clutch seems to be having I am wondering if incubation stress may be the cause of these strange babies.

That's exactly my thinking as well. I think incubation stress has a lot to do with the anomolies in this clutch.

[JimmyLindberg]

What do you mean by incubation stress?
If you mean the temperature it has been steady the whole incubation time.

[python_addict]

i think.........you should post pictures of him once you get him through his first shed

[Homegrownscales]

They were cooked a bit low correct? Low Inc temps have been known to do odd things to clutches. This may be one of those weird things.

[bubblz]

I went through this whole thread and kept hearing normal but didn't see any babies that looked normal.

So I'm just tagging this thread for updated pics

[J.Vandegrift]

What do you mean by incubation stress?
If you mean the temperature it has been steady the whole incubation time.

Between them taking so long to exit the egg, the cord wrapped baby, the weak one, and the dead ones, something must have been off at some point during the incubation. Could have been too wet, too dry, maybe your thermostat is off... could have been a bunch of things. Just my opinion but incubation issues have been been know to result in some crazy hatchlings. Hopefully I am wrong. Either way it's a sweet looking snake.

[JimmyLindberg]

The temperature has been steady all the time but I agree that this has taken quite a while.

Anyway the "weird looking" snake is unfortunately dead......
His siblings are still alive and we just have to wait and see, the question is if this had to do with any genetics or with the incubator.
I have never experienced this problems before and I just have to wait and see when the next clutch is ready to hatch if we get the same problematics here.
The question is if we should do the same paring next season considering what happened with this clutch?
Here is some pictures of the weird snake after it had died.......

[Quiet Tempest]

It's a shame it didn't make it. So sorry.

[dr del]

Nuts,

I would definately repeat the pairing at least once more.

I hope the rest of the eggs in your incubator are fine.

How are you planning on double checking the temps and humidity to find out if it really is at the right level?


dr del