Hi,

Yes, kinking due to injuries is pretty common (at least in my experience) and certainly is not genetic and won't be passed on to offspring. Back in the early 90's, I purchased a young trophy jungle carpet python from Don Hamper. Apparantly, one of his helpers closed the cage lid on this snake's tail as a baby, which resulted in a kink as the snake grew. This kink was pretty dramatic and right around the spot in the tail where the hemipenes retract. Now this snake was only available because of this injury and nobody wanted to risk the time and energy to raise it only to find out that the injury mechanically sterilized the animal. Well, being young and hopeful, I purchased the animal and raised him up. Well, he got better looking with age and developed into the finest black and mustard yellow jugle I had ever seen... and he was a breeding machine. the injury didn't interfere with reproduction one bit. His ancestors still form the core of my jungle group. So, in my experience it is worth the risk. Good luck.

will

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