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Posted by: boaphile at Tue Oct 10 21:34:38 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by boaphile ]  
   

Did anyone ever notice how often preemie Boa babies are seemingly worthy of new Morph status or are seriously aberrantly patterned or are colored weird or lack red pigment or have very little if any pigment at all? This is because premature appearing babies are likely not always just "premature" but simply defective and also underdeveloped. I can't count the number of times I have seen folks post pictures of the freak animals produced that did not make it. Ghosts, Anerythristics, super whacked out patterned anomalies that don't make it are very common. I have produced them here myself. I learned long ago that this is something that is very common with underdeveloped babies. This is regardless if the rest of the litter was on time, which is far and away the case. Those preemie freaks that don't make it, don't for good reason. New morphs they are not. Spontaneous Ghosts they are not. Just weak and defective or simply premature babies are they.



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