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All right, all right this is not a freak show, actually this is a serious matter. but still you have to pay the dollar. lol

Past monday i opened my second clutch (i have 2 fems) i saw an albino skin inside and it was moving, Fine! i decided not to find the head i just leave it alone until he wanted to come out, 7 eggs all looking good at first sight. then...couple of days all other 6 hatchlings came out to play around but this one.... didnt came out. then i had to check whats going on and found this modified ball python.
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By the way this is my first time never breed balls before, so..i was amazed to see ovulations... then Laying OMG!. i set up the cluth inside de incubator (home build) dam! i saw the first slits after all this months...and sudenly this happens. Guys i was so scared what did i did wrong? never and i can give my word Never turned the egg, my incubator has an UPS for energy backup, time, temperature controled, i had a log of 3 times temperature and humidity chekings... dam! this is out my hands.

any idea? im so sad this baby lived only less than a week inside of an opened egg with intestines out of the body and spine well you can see it.

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Im a novice breeder who feels sad about it.
thanks for watching...
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Amazonika
Beto

It happens. I had a Spider Crystal that came out kinked and did not live more than a day. It seems like the nicest snake, the one you really want to see and maybe hold back, is the one that comes out deformed too. Sad but part of nature.

Dave

dammmmm! so this just happens? any cause?

thanks for you time Dave
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Amazonika
Beto

If you had a whole clutch go bad then maybe you had an infertile male or female. Or there was a temp spike in the incubator. We all want answers as to why we lose an animal during incubation. Since you only lost one and had no incubator problems you just have to chalk it up to "Mother Nature". It happens to almost everybody. One egg goes bad or the baby comes out as a runt or deformed or any number of things. Sometimes there just is no simple answer. Don't beat yourself up over it.

Thanks! a lot! Pan
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Amazonika
Beto

I know what happened.....

....IT happened.....IT just does.....

I have seen these types before...some are deformed and some are twins that went horribly wrong....

.....good luck...the other 6 are fine ? correct?.....

see...6 good...you did nothing wrong/////
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........JY

Wow thanks man! that is good to know.

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Amazonika
Beto

I had a deformed one.

Fused at the stomach.

That dark spot...is the heart...on the outside. It was beating.

I culled the baby and saved it in a jar of rubbing alcohol.

I wouldn't have been able to keep it.

You are wrong in the head or what lol ?
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love this world, don't hate it.

Actually I ended up throwing it away because I found it too creepy.

Not wrong in the head, just fascinated. The fact that it was alive inside the egg with the heart on the outside was fascinating to me.
Horrifying yes, but still fascinating.

It happen to all breeder one day or another and nothing is wrong.

It's just like in human, cats/dogs, it just happens.

I think it happens more in reptiles cause there is more chance of it. Temperature, humidity, movement, vibration. But it also just happens cause genetics, dna etc...

Had babies survived few weeks without a lower jaw but they never wanted to eat.
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love this world, don't hate it.