As far as the why of the hypo's being bad feeders it could just be bad luck. If you got them from someone like Mike Lockwood who has been, and I believe still is, actively outcrossing his hypo stock then I would say you were unlucky with those hypo's just happening to be poor feeders as occassionally happens in normals. If you got them from someone who is not actively outcrossing their hypo stock then it might not have been luck so much as the early issues with the hypo line may not have been bred out from this breeders stock. This is particularly atractive to someone more interested in the "investment" then in the hobby as you can breed two hypo's together and get whole litters of hypo's and hence a much greater selling price instead of breeding out to completely unrelated het's and only get 50% hypo's to sell.



I'm not saying anything about wherever you got the hypo's from but the source would determine to a degree how likely the offspring were to have feeding issues. That being said even the healthiest snake stock will every so often throw a troublesome specimen.



Sean.
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