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ok let me start off by saying, i know its not a corn, but a corn pic is thrown in for good measure... also... the temps were in the low to mid 80s when incubating the deformed hatchling... and it has a normal sibling... also posted. any clues? he eats, poops, everything normally, but just needs help shedding. No i will not put him down, b/c he is perfectly healthy every other way
Everyone, meet lumpy:

Sibling Kabookie:

and corns for good measure

thanks! and have a nice day ~kin and my cat Spike

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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

Hey Kin, I had a deformed baby last year. It was a jungle corn. She was not totally formed near her vent and her yolk sac was still attached. I did not think she would make it. I kept her on moist paper towels and she finally started to completely form her under side. She ate and did everything normal. I had to just recently put her down because she developed an enlarged heart. Sometimes, nature has its defects. I dont think there is always a reason, except somebody has to be food.
Good luck with Lumpy. Hopefully you can give him a good life for how ever long it lasts.
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once"

thanks!!! so far he's doing good!! Its kinda nice to have something a lil different
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

beautiful kings, btw.
I have a normal banded, but the 50/50 black and white banded are so much prettier.
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once"

THANKS MISTY!!! AWW........
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

In my experience spinal kinks, especially above the vent, occur when there's a spike in incubation temperature. So if you were incubating you eggs in the low to mid-80s and you had a heatwave, causing the incubation temperature to go into the upper 80s or low 90s, you could get kinks.

With most inexpensive incubators the idea it to raise the temperature, but these devices have no mechanism to cool down if the temperature goes too high.

I've seen a fair number of snakes with spinal kinks and as long as they're not being bred, it doesn't seem to affect them much.

Tim