Cute hatchling but.... Its missing a bit

[gecko-kus]

Yup yopu read right my first ever AFT hatchling is missing a bit poor fella, he was born with a very poor excuse of a tail indeed, but I think hes abaolutely gorgeous, and am definately glad its mothers stripe was carried through in the genes as the male wasnt striped.

Anyway heres a picture of the poor fella, other than the tail he seems to be perfectly healthy and normal... hatched out ncie and fat hehehe, probably making up for the tail deficiency. As I first saw him i had to look round the incubator and egg for the tail, but as you can see in the image there is no damage what so ever to the tail end:

 

[the_angel_007]

Awww... he´s so sweet!!

 

[SelectGex]

Either genetics or a temp flux in the incubator. Im guessing the secound of the two.

 

[gecko-kus]

Yeah I did have a problem with the incubator about 3 weeks after it was put in there... about a week before the next laod of eggs was put in the incubator, so that could very well be it. There wasnt anything simialr visible in the parents, and I had also thought that it was something to do with the temperature fluctuation at one point. The only fluctuation I know of was just over a few hours though, is weird to think that something like that might have contributed to this... cant think of any other fluctuations... everything else int he incubator has now hatched without any problems at all.

 

[ReptileMan27]

Congrats , stinks his tail is missing but good luck .

 

[gecko-kus]

Thanks, its had its first shed over the weekend... It did have a little bit of vermiculite stuck to its belly button which didnt heal very well, but since its shed it has come off and the belly button area looks nice and healthy now so am optimistic about that. Its a bit of a bugger to get feeding, but its still nice and fat so I'm not too worried about it just yet.