i have seen the kinked tails in mostly cooler temp species, ficheri most commonly. These people incubated their eggs at a higher temp than I incubate my veileds at! Most of the clutch was kink-tailed. No apparant calcium problems, nothing, just kinked tails. Higher temps seems to cause the embryo to develop faster, and sometimes less straight. Or so the theory goes.



Seems to be a developmental issue, and not a nuritrional or genetic one.

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