Morph: Double het VPI snow
Deformity: Badly kinked neck, slightly underformed lower jaw.
What happened: The air conditioning failed while we were out of town at a wedding, the house got up to 100F for a couple days.
Pairing: VPI axanthic het albino (dame) to albino poss het VPI axanthic (sire).
Total number of clutches and/or hatchlings you have produced: 9 clutches to date, ~40 live hatchlings total. This was a bad year with the air conditioning failure, I lost 4 eggs from 4 clutches. Last year I only lost 1 egg from 4 clutches.
Photos: Here's a video of the kinked male trying to move around. That's his mean sister guarding him. (She totally bit me in between the clips, too.)
His lower jaw might also be slightly under-formed. It's hard to see in the photo, but his upper teeth sort of stick out on one side.
Other comments: This was one of two clutches laid during the air conditioning outage. The black pastel clutch made it through relatively unscatched (one egg died, the rest of the babies hatched healthy and very fat). But the VPI snow clutch was a disaster. Two of the VPI snow eggs developed mold and eventually died a week before hatching. Both contained extremely kinked hatchlings, one of which was the only albino in the clutch. The other two eggs survived. Those contained a male and female hets. The female is apparently healthy (if super bitey). The male is much less bitey, but he has a terrible neck kink and slightly deformed jaw. He has difficulty moving from point A to point B, and I've been advised to euthanize him. I'm holding out to see if he's able to eat or not.
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