My little baby girls...

[Helifreak]

Those are gorgeous snakes! Did they think that the small eyes would be detrimental to the snake or to any future breeds?

It was more of an unknown than anything definite. Microphthalmia in other animals is sometimes associated with other birth defects, but sometimes not. None of the vets at the show had ever seen micropthalmia in snakes before - and these were all exotic animal MDs.

So far, she is acting like a perfectly normal little baby ball python. She just has little itty-bitty eyes.