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White baby issues

5 Star Serpents

Ryan and Terri
So out of a clutch from a blizzard het anery x anery het amel we got 14 babies, 3 of which were/are snows (I'm guessing as that's our best guess at the hets on the parents with no background info on them) but it seems that all 3 of the white babies have had problems. White baby #1 died in the egg it was kinked and about a week from gestation when it died, #2 pipped then drowned itself in the egg not kinked but small and #3 looks very odd, weird belly scales it has almost a dried up look to it even though I have been keeping it hydrated, it's much smaller than the rest of the hatchlings as well, it hasn't shed yet but I will be very surprised if it makes it long enough to shed (which should be any day) or if it ever eats even. I've caught it laying belly up but "ok" a few times now. I'm pondering just culling it anyways but I'd like to know what the underlying problem might be.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had issues with similar type pairings or if like many species certain crosses result in a "fatal white gene" and this could be the problem?? :confused: All of the other babies are healthy and a good size but the whites are all "junk"
Any ideas on what the issue might be would be awesome!
 
The dried up look could just be that the baby is getting ready to shed. None of the colors look right until after the first shed.
 
The dried up look could just be that the baby is getting ready to shed. None of the colors look right until after the first shed.

I do know the "dried up" look COULD be cause by the pre-shed but we've hatched a decent # of babies and none have ever looked like her, and it isn't affecting her color at all, its the general quality of her appearance. She is on moist paper towel (which is what we do with all of our babies until their first shed) and provided with water. Yet she has a very papery feel, it's somewhat difficult to explain (and of course my camera is missing) but it is not at all like anything we've ever hatched. None of the other babies in the clutch are at all like this, she is much smaller than them, no kinks but very gross really.
 
I've yet to have a problem with any of my snows.

I'm not 100% sure that she is just a snow...as mentioned we have no background on either of the parents so there could possibly be something else playing a factor. I'm just curious if there is a combination that creates a fatal white gene, for example the same thing happens in boas and carpet pythons, if you cross certain morphs you end up with babies that either die in the egg or shortly after hatching. I'm curious because all of the other babies in the clutch are perfectly normal yet ALL of the white ones have/had issues...I'm not positive if the female may by some odd chance be het charcoal also or if they are both het something else that might cause issues.

The clutch had in it
1.3 normals
2.1 anery (??? I'm pretty sure they are just anery a)
2.2 amel
0.1.2 snows (??? the problem babies)

Dad is blizzard, mom looked charcoal so we bred her to a known to prove it, she obviously proved anery a not charcoal. They both had no known hets before the breeding and it is the only breeding for either of them. So dad proved het anery a and mom proved het amel but the problem babies have me wondering if there's something else underlying
 
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