Wow! Thanx for the detail-oriented response to my inquiry Jereme! That was extremely awesome of you! And greatly appreciated!! If you have seen many of my posts here, you may not have been so generous, as I have a tendency to ramble descriptively and otherwise. Not totally my fault, just a side-effect to having multiple head injuries, I guess.
But back to the topic (I am also notorious for being unable to focus! Now if I could just remember where my Ritalin is . . .
. . ), but I have heard that incubation in extreme temps just inside the boundaries necessary NOT to kill an egg will also result in variances in behavior, possibly leading to abnormal traits. For example, I had a California Kingsnake from hell (Olivia) who was just mean and nasty, but she was sooooo gorgeous!! (Actually reminds me of a few PEOPLE I KNOW!!!) However, being a New Yorker, I believe in half of what I see and nothing of what I hear and so I took her on anyway. She was a handful! Constantly snapping and striking and for no apparent reason. I never believed people when they told me their snakes bit them for no reason and am still a sceptic when I hear such reports, but Olivia would've made a believer out of anyone. You would SWEAR there was a rattlesnake in the cage when just TOUCHING the screen to get access to change her water! Something was wrong with the poor baby and it's only through patience and a lot of hard work that I was able to keep her for a couple of years, but a hectic schedule following 9/11 resulted in my having to give her to someone I was reasonably sure would be able to take care of her, and thankfully, she had a relatively decent life (albeit without being handled too much!) until 2008, when she passed (her exact age was unknown, but she was a minimum of 16 since I got her in 1992 with very little info from a now defunct pet store). She was already adult sized when I got her, but herp-lovers who knew her have commented to me that the lack of a recorded or even a verbal history was a sign that something was wrong in the first place. In retrospect, they might be right, as I often have made decisions to acquire animals based upon their striking appearances and sometimes despite some behavioral warnings. Is it possible her eggs were incubated in temps too high?
In any case, thanx again for the informative response!!! :crazy02:
