The deflated egg pt2

shiftylou

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So the egg has been deflated for 4days, decided to pip the egg, found a dead baby inside, fully developed not sure why it never made it out, the egg had started to dry out and there wasnt much liquid inside. the egg started to go mouldy so i took the chance to open it.

It parents were either a shctb or a shct and the father was a bell albino the hatchling was all pink with white bands? the other hatchlings i have hatched were yellow and brown bands. does this mean 1 of my females may of been a het for? or is this the colouration of a albino?

Do have pictures of the dead baby but some people may not like if i post them.
 

Baoh

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From your description, it sounds like an albino, but I should warn you that I have had hatchling developmental failure due to inaccurate temperatures from a crappy digital thermometer that is very popular at chain pet stores over here before I switched over to research laboratory-grade equipment, and it gave rise to very abnormal and interesting coloration variances. Sadly, the coolest one died the day before it was expected to hatch. It was Eclipse-eyed and silvery-skinned from a MS het RAPTOR x RAPTOR pairing. Your temps may have been fine, mind you, but I figured I'd weigh in with a vignette to let you know freak colors can happen, too. Odds are that you do have a female het for albinism. Hopefully, it was a Bell x het Bell and not that your male is het Tremper or anything like that. Post a link to the pic with a blurb of warning text. Some people like to find problems in everything.
 

Baoh

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acpart

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It's hard to tell from the pictures, but to me the bands look black with very pale yellow. Premature babies can have washed out colors, so it could go either way.
Aliza
 

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