return to main index

  mobile - desktop
follow us on facebook follow us on twitter follow us on YouTube link to us on LinkedIn
 
click here for Rodent Pro
Mice, Rats, Rabbits, Chicks, Quail
Available Now at RodentPro.com!
Locate a business by name: click to list your business
search the classifieds. buy an account
events by zip code list an event
Search the forums             Search in:
News & Events: Herp Photo of the Day: Sunbeam Snake . . . . . . . . . .  Herp Photo of the Day: Happy Rattlesnake Friday! . . . . . . . . . .  St. Louis Herpetological Society - July 13, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  San Diego Herp Society Meeting - July 15, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Colorado Herp Society Meeting - July 19, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Chicago Herpetological Society Meeting - July 20, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Bay Area Herpetological Society Meeting - July 25, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Suncoast Herp Society Meeting - July 26, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  DFW Herp Society Meeting - July 26, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Tucson Herpetological Society Meeting - July 28, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Southwestern Herp Society Meeting - Aug 02, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Greater Cincinnati Herp Society Meeting - Aug 06, 2025 . . . . . . . . . . 
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research
full banner - advertise here .50¢/1000 views
Click here for Hornworms from Pioneer Feeders
pool banner - $50 year

Spine kinks?

[ Login ] [ User Prefs ] [ Search Forums ] [ Back to Main Page ] [ Back to Kingsnake Forum ] [ Reply To This Message ]
[ Register to Post ]

Posted by: AaronBayer at Thu Jul 10 14:35:35 2014  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by AaronBayer ]  
   

From time to time I'll see snakes offered for sale that have small spine deformaties. usually the ad will say something along the lines of "spine kinks cause by temperature fluctuations" or "my incubator temps didn't stay at a constant temp and it resulted in a spine deformaty".

I find temp changes hard to believe as the sole culprit. I've never used incubators for any colubrids... i've just put plastic tubs full of eggs on a shelf in my house and forgot about them.

60-80 days later a nose is poking out. 24 hrs after I notice the first pip, I cut the other eggs in the clutch. I've been measuring the temps on the shelf where I have my clutches sitting now and it gets as high as 82 in the day and as low as 72 at night. I have them on a shelf near the ceiling in my snake room on a SW facing wall.

I've never seen a kink... though i've only produced a little over a thousand babies, not the tens or hundereds of thousands some big breeders have.

so what is everyone's opinion on the kinks? if temps, how high/low does it need to be and how quickly does the temp need to change to cause the deformaty?


   

[ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Hide Replies ]


>> Next topic:  A few more cal kings - Denbar, Sun Jul 13 20:40:10 2014
<< Previous topic:  NC Eastern Kings - ssshane, Mon Jun 30 12:53:04 2014