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I was amazed to find this leucistic carpet in one of the eggs from a hypo jag x hypo jag breeding. Unfortunately, it never made it out of the egg. Although fully formed, there it was, dead as Julius Caesar.

Nevertheless, I thought people might enjoy seeing it.

Brian

hopefully one day the lucey will make it through and live. cool pic none the less awesome to see it atleast was fully formed. Did you cut the egg or did it start to pip on its own and die or what? any extra details would be great

The animal made two small slits in the egg, but never emerged. When I cut the egg open I found it as shown in the photo. Everything seemed perfect, viable blood vessels, adequate fluid in the egg and full animal development etc, but dead.

Although it was a terrible tease, it was still neat to see.

Brian

i bet it was amazing to see. im sure ONE day someone will get lucky enough to have the snake make it through.

this one didn't make it. That would have been a beautiful python. I had a similar experience in 1991 with a clutch of albino burmese eggs. When the female left the clutch after they began to hatch, I allowed the rest of the hatchlings to come out over the next couple of days. After removing everything from the nest box, there was one nice looking egg left that was un-slit. I manually cut open the egg and found a perfectly developed but dead, full term albino burmese with two heads. That would have been a definite nice to have. Thanks much for posting the photo.

Kelly

The Lucy is the Super/homozygous form of the Jaguar and to this day, the only one that lived manage to stay alive for three months and up and died. The belief is the lucys go full term and there lungs aren't fully developed and die shortly after emerging.

http://www.morelia-reptor.com/lucy/lucy.html

His was even a paradox! I hope one day, we can crack this non-viable fatal lucy gene open and have viable lucys, they truly are the "holy grail"

Congrats Brian!
hows the Granite Project coming?
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Pat
"You keep WHAT in your freezer?" "Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

1.1 Ill never tell...
1.0 100% het granite ij
0.1 granite ij
1.0 Jag 50% het granite
.2 striped coastals (Baylin)
1.2 Coastal Carpet Pythons
1.3 Jaguar carpet pythons (Australian addiction reptiles)
.2 Tiger Carpet (Dave prada HCQ with Baylin tiger)
1.2 centralian carpets
1.1 Irian Jaya carpets (boa cabana)
1.1 Jungle carpets (Futo)
1.1 Guyana Red tail boa
1.1 Water pythons Liasis fuscus
1.0 Brazilian rainbow boa
.1 Pitbull Wolfe mix

thanks for posting that link very cool pics, just wish i knew what the rest of it said lol.