Reptilescanada.com is currently updating the website so you won't be able to see the article there.Originally Posted by Don
I did post a version of it here on bp.net as well, less some of the more graphic photos: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...52#post1920952
I have had a few big breeders send me pics of their super cins and super cin combos from this season that do not show a lick of deformity. Obviously it is in my best interest to believe that the results I found were not linked to super cins (as I have more than 5 in my collection), however all the other snakes in the clutch were unaffected. At bare minimum this shows that the super cinnamons are genetically weaker than the average ball python morph/combo.
Because I don't spend every waking moment beside the incubator, I can not say for certain that there was not some form of anomaly that interrupted normal incubation, only that if there was, it happened while I was not present or in between the 3 to 4 "incubator checks" I perform each day (out of habit and excitement more than anything).
Long story short: If you are ok with the idea of hatching out some Slinkys, and that breeding to hit a potentially weak combo doesn't cross your moral boundary, than have at it.
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