I had a 50% het piebald male die of constant constipation. My vet did a necropsy and said the muscles associated with the colon where underdeveloped like a genetic condition in cats called magacolon. Of course that doesn't prove it's genetic in snakes and as a 50% chance het he was outbred at least one and probably two generations (might not have ever been inbred as recent as the pied mutation is).

I knew corn snake breeders who talked about inbreeding lines for many generations and claimed no problems. Still, I try hard not to inbreed just in case.

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