Severe Sadness With My Potion

[Cross Exotics]

So today all the babies were out of their eggs when I checked on them. Out of the 6 eggs I received 3 Mystic Potions, 1 Mystic, 2 Odd Normals. The most heart wrenching thing was to see one of the Potions severely kinked I've never had that happened so I'm wondering what to expect from this. It seems to move around without problems but it looks dismal at the same time. The Normal too has some unique colors to it and the belly is crazy. Let me know what you think and thank you in advance..

Mystic Potion 1



Mystic Potion 2



Mystic Potion 3





Odd Normal or is it?







Other Normal





Thank You For Looking...

[Sarin]

They look great, but looks like you might've had some incubation issues? That could've caused the kink and odd patterned normals. Also, it could be just me, or the picture, but those Potions look pretty bright!

What temp do you incubate at? Did you have any heat spikes that you're aware of?

Sorry about the kinked one, though. Bummer.

[M&NSnakeDen]

I can't help you out with the belly pics, unfortunately.
That is a pretty distinct kink poor baby. In my opinion, I imagine that baby would have a hard time passing any poop or urates. I'm not sure it has that great of odds, but I could be wrong!

[Southern_Breeder]

Aww poor thing.

[Cross Exotics]

I incubated at 89 degrees and I had one instance of a power loss which dropped the temp for a few hours down into the mid 70's. I know things happen, but it angers me to have things happen like this and something suffer that doesn't deserve it. As for the other potions, that is the actual color brightness.

[MrLang]

Sucks but IMO that requires euthanasia. Congrats on the others

[CD CONSTRICTORS]

I incubated at 89 degrees and I had one instance of a power loss which dropped the temp for a few hours down into the mid 70's. I know things happen, but it angers me to have things happen like this and something suffer that doesn't deserve it. As for the other potions, that is the actual color brightness.

I'd investigate your incubator. There is no good reason down here in FL that a few hour power loss will drop temps 10F- unless you keep them in your house where ambient is 50F?

I have lost power several times for an hour or two and my incubator has never dropped temps more than a degree at most. This past Monday power was out for ~2 hours beach side from Edgewater to Palm Coast and I never lost more than 1F in my incubator.

[coldbloodaddict]

Sucks, but it's part of breeding...ish happens! Put that snake down!

[Pythonfriend]

Sucks but IMO that requires euthanasia. Congrats on the others

Sucks, but it's part of breeding...ish happens! Put that snake down!

I am glad to not be the first one to suggest it. I had a spine problem once, until a skilled neurosurgeon resolved it in a complicated 4-hour operation, but prior to surgery the pain levels were so extreme, regular people cannot understand it. For 10 days, i had constant painful cramps 24/7, at times the pain level was so high that i lost the ability to speak with my normal voice. I did not sleep for 3 days in a row while being bathed in sweat from the painful and exhausting cramps. For 14 days, my average was around 1-2 hours of sleep per 24 hours. Permanent intense neverending pain kept me awake. Then i got opiate-based painkillers, what a blessing, i could sleep 4-6 hours at a time, and my mind was half-fried by pain and half-fried by opiates.

And all that just because something went wrong in my lower spine. I got used to people failing to believe that this is worse than shattered bones. It is surprisingly painful, i slowly pushed needles into my body for comparison when i was desperate, and the pain levels just did not compare. I could slowly push in a needle into my arm until it hit bone and at all times it was far less painful than my background pain level.


So i have to agree, put down the snake with the severe spine kink. Humans can maybe resolve the problem with 4 hours of surgery involving microsurgery directly on the nerve, price tag somewhere between 30000 and 60000 dollars. Snakes dont show when they are in pain. Put the kinked one down.