Bamboo Rat Snake subspecies cross?

[Aaron_S]

I can't really answer your question directly as I have no experience with these species currently.

What I can suggest is go back to the person you bought the parents from and see if there's any lineage you can get. See if you track when and who bred them.

The other part is when breeding animals really funky things happen in the eggs until the animal is ready to hatch. We get lots of odd patterns and colours and incubation temp can be the cause of these things.

I personally wouldn't panick yet as the baby could not have had it's full colouring yet when it died. Odd that it's black BUT not completely out of the realm of possible.