This is strange. What causes this?
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What happened here?
RossPadilla
Aug 09, 2012 01:58 AM
Replies (6)
AaronBayer
Aug 09, 2012 07:49 AM
looks like a cal king X boomslang with a face like that.
that is weird... im assuming the eggs werent kept at the proper temps causing a deformity. it's obviously eating and growing just fine.
Kerby...
Aug 09, 2012 09:23 AM
Did it hatch out like that? If so, then a deformity. It happens even in the wild, nothing to do with husbandry.
Did it happen later after hatching? Then it might be swollen due to an infection, etc..
Kerby...
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VICtort
Aug 09, 2012 09:29 AM
That somewhat abreviated rostrum is odd, I saw similar once in a unicolor cribo. Also, rostrum deformities "snub noses" are common in fish, I have seen in stripers, trout, grouper, etc. but I have no idea if the condition is even remotely related to what you see in this Cal king.
DMong
Aug 09, 2012 10:35 AM
I don't know what causes that type of deformity, or if it has anything to do with incubation or not, but I have seen a good number of full-term dead-in-egg neonates that looked very similar to that over the years.
Looks like a lizard hybrid..LOL!
~Doug
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RossPadilla
Aug 09, 2012 02:14 PM
I found these pictures on a Spanish reptile website. From what I could translate, it was born that way. I have never seen a snake with a head like that, that was alive. Even its scales around its mouth )upper and lower labials?) are fused together.
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a153fish
Aug 09, 2012 02:57 PM
most snakes that are deformed like that, don't even hatch, because their egg tooth is deformed, or in a bad position. That one was lucky I guess?
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