Blue BEL
lesser + mojave
bug eyes, blue eyes but with pink center that is almost always fully dilated. Eye looks red with bkue around it. lower jaw is short. low feeding response, assist feed ok.
That deformity is referred to as “shark mouth”…
I believe any morph in the 8Ball complex can possibly develop it, especially super variants, unless it was caused by a fault in incubation.
I actually don’t think the eyes are much larger than normal it’s just the shape of the face due to the shark mouth and the blue making it seem more pronounced.
BELs will always have a pupil that shines red. It’s the lack of melanin. One of the ways to know if your BEL is Banana/CG is to actually ‘candle’ the top of the snakes head. A BEL will have dark iris and red pupils, a banana/cg will shine red pupils and iris.
Shark mouth can be due to poor genetics from line breeding too much or because of incubation errors. As @cmsreptiles said, the 8 ball complex can also do that but theres nothing here to do it
others in this clutch don’t look like this. all incubated together. Eyes definitely look different than my other blue BELs that are super lessers. The “pupil” definitely stuck dilated round unless in very bright light. eyes look red from distance and not the normal pretty blue. Some day need to get the whole clutch tested. I just thought there was some known bad gene combo. I suppose could be just a bad egg.
This is probably a banana BEL and whatever other isn’t. As I said… If you shine a light on the snakes head like you candle and egg- if the whole eye shines red it’s banana. If only the pupil shines red it’s not banana
The eyes are blue. I don’t know what else to tell you cause they look normal for a BEL if you have banana in the mix. But regardless a BEL does have red pupils and so do Pieds.
