i know, i know... but I had the bubblegum in a big tupperware container for 8 hours, treated 4 times for mites, and watched/listened/observed for any signs of unhealthiness..... he seems and acts perfectly healthy. It's been over a month, and he just seems to have gotten healthier with my vitamin doses during feeding.... very vibrant colors, and very perky and normal activity in the tank. I got him from the same breeder as the hybrids... and he's never sold me a sick snake or even attempted to sell a sick snake, so, I trust that the bubblegum is 100%.
My male hybrid passed away 2 1/2 years later from the time I bought him as a hatchling... I think once he hit puberty, he went through some internal changes, and perhaps that's what ended causing his death.... perhaps too much hormones, idk, something very odd, unseen, and developmental for sure....

Now, as far as my old male goes.......my deceased male was very different from his family. His mother was yellow, his daddy was gold. His sister (my female) is high gold, and so was the rest of the clutch. He was the only one who was white.
The vet said he probably had developmental issues in his genetics (since they are hybrids) and one gene was probably too dominant or too recessive, which could have led to his strange appearance in comparison to his "family"..... and it could of led to unseen issues that affected his brain or insides. Bread, the white male, was hyperactive and somewhat unpredictable in behavior, he was nice and never bit, but, he was just so odd, even his breeder said so.

Everyone I talked to all said it was just one of those unexpected things that sometimes happen when raising snakes...... so, it may sound cold.... but that's just the way the cookie crumbles. There are tons of breeders out there who have seemingly healthy snakes just die overnight for no reason or warning.... it happens, and it sucks... but it's just nature.. and even though we think we have it in our control, strange things happen that we never foresaw happening that were waayyy out of our control.
Sorry for that tangent.... lol... got a little carried away.