Has anyone had issues with the livelihood of their male GHI’s?? In the last 4 years that I’ve had ball pythons I’ve lost only a couple, which all for the most part were my GHI males. To add to it, its completely at random. Housing, temps, feedings, water, eberythings been great and the same for all my other morphs! This is my third GHI male to have passed that has reached adulthood. All of them each from different breeders and different clutches. I’m just not understanding what could be going on here. I’ve done some digging and i have read a couple other cases that experienced the same phenomenon. Has anyone else heard or experience this?
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I actually lost a GHI combo male last year. Was a sudden death of a yearling. No symptoms and only thing out of the ordinary was skipping a meal the week before.
Necropsy came back inconclusive. Virals were negative. We just wrote it off as just something out of our control and that was that
I haven’t heard anyone bring up any issues like that with GHIs so I didn’t think anything of it at the time.
I don’t know if they would have any more insight on things but I’m going to tag @owalreptiles and @t_h_wyman just in case
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I’m fairly new to GHI and have been upgrading my animals trying to catch up so have only kept them for 1-3 years into breeding. But out of 3.3 I think it has been I haven’t lost any adults. I did notice that my super GHI male shed a lot and sometimes had shed problems. I eventually read that over shedding is a known issue with super GHI. I currently have 1.3 young near adult GHI combos for my abyss project and a 2019 female I should be getting back from a long breeding loan soon. So a modest sample size and not very long term but so far so good.
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The only GHI “issues” I am aware of are that the SuperGHI tend to keep their baby skin abnormally long and, as Randy noted, they seem to shed more frequently. But beyond that I have not heard of anything that would indicate FTF
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