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I bred a normal female with a het pied and got 6 eggs. Two eggs went bad and the rest were full term but failed to hatch. Two of them had full stripe and all had bright yellow color with nice pattern. I usually cut the eggs but did not on this clutch. The second pic has the fourth snake that did hatch but died 4 days later next to a normal in shed and a premature pastel from another clutch. Also you can see his hemipenes was inverted. Incubated at 90 degrees. The genetics of this pair are also questionable now.

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Luckey

wow, those babies were really nice looking as well. im sorry for your loss on the clutch. 90 is pushing it if there is a spike in temps then your right in the red zone. i prefer 87-89 and luckly have not had issue yet.
any pics of the adult s from the striped clutch?
adam jeffery
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" a.k.a. farfrumugen "
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Here is a pic of the female. she is real light in color. The male is a reduced pattern animal.

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Luckey

That sucks! Time to change your name!

Just a thought, I rarely have a stillborn, but on occasion it happens and I cut the egg to see what might have been, and invariably, the snakes that died in the egg almost always have a huge degree of striping and or other aberrancies. And this has lead me to believe after the first few instances that the amazing dead snake I have in front of me was not some genetic mutation that would lead to a new morph, but some abnormality during the incubation at a crucial color and pattern development phase, that inevitably led to their demise.
Neat looking snakes none the less.
Steve
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Primeval-Beauty
"Finding beauty where other's fear to tread"

I'm sorry for your loss. You seem to be having some major issues with incubation. Extraordinary color, striping and banding as well as death is all consistent with egg stress during incubation.

Dial your incubator in to 88.5 deg and triple check the temps throughout the incubator with a couple different thermometers and a temp gun.

My thoughts are with you.
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Best regards,
AlanColesReptiles