I recently saw coastal carpets described as 100% het tiger. It's my understanding that the tiger gene is co-dom, and the only other mention I've heard of the term "het" to describe them has been Anthony Caponetto's reference to his first generation tigers (tiger X normal). His snakes were obvious tiger offspring, which he commented may be visual hets due to the broken striping, which when bred together may produce "textbook" tigers.
The other coastals I saw looked perfectly normal, w/ the exception of some increased side striping, and a tiger-like head pattern. They are reported to be the offspring of a normal X tiger pairing, all of which had the same visual appearance.
Does anyone have any thoughts or theories about this? Could this be the result of pairing a first generation "visual het" to a normal? Thanks.

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