Quote Originally Posted by Jeff B View Post
Some just get fat and throw jelly beans and some, throw stills.
Odd. In 25+ years I've never had that happen and 2010 was the first time I had ever got an unfertilized egg and even that was part of a large healthy litter. Stills have happened, yes, but just a few in a normal live litter.

But of course, I've never bred snakes that were result of generations of selective breeding/inbreeding either. Just seems to me that the tendency in captivity is to breed snakes anyway when they have these problems,(just for the sake of preserving the morph even though you're also passing on fertility problems) and especially if you get very few surviving offspring, they get bred whereas in the wild, a snake with fertility problems is not likely to have any of her very few live offspring survive long enough to breed because her numbers are low which greatly reduces or eliminates the chances that any will still be around as adults.