Egg Stress and the resulting babies

[Freakie_frog]

So there are certain points in the development of a Ball Python in the egg that can physically change the look or physiology of the snake. This some times can present in eyelessness, kinks, cleft mouths, total train wrecks, an on occasion they will have tweaked patterns and colors. This is something to consider when babies don't hatch the way you would expect.

A few years ago I had one of my last clutches in the bator experience a temp spike of over 95 degrees for more than a day before I caught it. Lucky I caught it when I did cause it could have killed a lot of babies. One of the animals I was sure was dead when I cut the clutch.. It lived after some TLC and intervention.

The pairing was a Lesser x normal. All the babies were as expected except one.

This what I saw in the egg





when it crawled out and needed to be set up cause it didn't absorb it yolk




and here she is after a few meals and a shed or two




and with a few clutch mates


I'll get some updated pics tonight of her.

This is just something to keep in mind. you might not have hatched something new it might have just had egg stress causeing its look..What causes egg stress? hot spots or cold spots in the bator, dehydration of the eggs, over humidified eggs, mold on the egg or an adjacent egg, dead eggs attached to it.

Just some food for thought.