About 4 weeks ago we hatched out a text book perfect clutch of Cinnamons, Incubation was dead on, length of incubation was dead on, the ratio was dead on 6 eggs, 3 Cinnamon and 3 Normals. We noticed right off the bat that one of the Cinnamons seemed to have a more "petite" or narrower/smaller head, as time went on the normals continued to act perfect in every way, have fed 2 times and shed once in 4 weeks since hatching, the Cinnamons on the other hand....are just wierd...Odd...two of them have been hard to get feeding, took the longest out of all of them to finally take a meal, and the third one has eaten 3 times but exhibits a REALLY strange neuro problem.

The only thing I could explain it to is a really bad Spider Wobble, I have not heard of any other morphs exhibiting neurological problems, other than the spider...It just seemed very odd to me that out of a clutch of 6 eggs the 3 that are doing the best, and completley normal are the normals.....

It got me wondering if there was anyone else that had noticed odd things about Cinnamons, and I know this topic is taboo, and nobody every wants to talk about genetic defects, but I just thought I would see what people thought.

I took some video, but for some reason when I uploaded it to the internet it sped up the video...its like stuck on fast forward, but you can still see the action I am talking about. If the pattern on this snake was that of a Spiders, I would guess it would be chaulked up as a bad wobbling spider...and no big deal, but this is a Cinnamon...doing a Spider Wobble?....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i8Nvm5C4Gk
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