OMG what are those popping up?!

Originally Posted by Blutengel

I know I'm stuck to keeping all three of them.... what a bummer I must say though I'll have to be creative with vivs and make some difficult choices too, three adult snakes more then reckoned with ruins my housing plan quit heavily.

So send one to me!

Those are super neat! Two in a clutch does sound odd, though I would assume that they were kept in very similar conditions so maybe you just hit some really strange zone that encouraged this.

I hope it doesn't negatively affect their health in any way. I really hope they make it, it will be cool to see how this develops. Lots of pics please

Maybe it is the specific herp breeder I used for that box of eggs!!!!! Honey, it shrunk the scales!

Robby, do you have some spare money then, like... let's say... a lot? hehe....

Don't you think it's odd that, if it _is_ incubation-related, that this hasn't popped up in any of the other million cornsnake clutches previously? I hope it's genetic.

Originally Posted by Nanci

Don't you think it's odd that, if it _is_ incubation-related, that this hasn't popped up in any of the other million cornsnake clutches previously? I hope it's genetic.

I agree, I just can't for the life of me see extra production of smaller scales being a result of incubation stress. But only time will tell!

Originally Posted by Blutengel

Maybe it is the specific herp breeder I used for that box of eggs!!!!! Honey, it shrunk the scales!

Robby, do you have some spare money then, like... let's say... a lot? hehe....

Haha! Shipping probably would be a bit of a hassle.

Originally Posted by Blutengel

Pssst, Reptileman, don't tell them how they are made, you promised

Its cool you just better give me some money or I will tell them the rest of the recipe lol.

Originally Posted by Nanci

Don't you think it's odd that, if it _is_ incubation-related, that this hasn't popped up in any of the other million cornsnake clutches previously? I hope it's genetic.

That was just a random guess from me. I haven't bred anything so it really was just a random though. I hope its genetic too, I don't know why I like these so much but I am really curious to see what is up with the little guys.

Originally Posted by ShenziSixaxis

Very interesting... cannot say I want one though, because of the inbreeding.

But all corns, except maybe verified wild-caught-from-different-location-bred together-offspring are inbred to some degree. All morphs, colour or pattern, have been inbred to reproduce the recessive genes. Specific looks such as candy cane are inbred and line-bred to perfect the polygenic traits.

Originally Posted by sciencechick

That was just a random guess from me. I haven't bred anything so it really was just a random though. I hope its genetic too, I don't know why I like these so much but I am really curious to see what is up with the little guys.

Not a bad guess, though. Doesn't it have to be one or the other??