Good question!



IMO, I do believe the possible het is worth more than the known normal. It is a less expensive way to get into the morphs. BUT, as you indicated you could be getting a normal and wasting time. For that reason I went mainly with 100% hets for my BCI projects. Cost me more up front, but I felt it was worth the extra coin. If the possible hets were around 1/3 the price of the 100$ hets, then it could be worth it to get three and if odds work out, you should have two hets and one normal. I don't like to gamble that way. Putting years into raising up to find out you have normals.



Also, I plan my breeding pairs around producing 100% hets where possible. For example, my male albino, het anery paired with my female anery het albino. Outcome should be 25% snow, 25% albino het anery, 25% anery het albino and 25% double hets.



Again IMO, 100% hets (at market pricing) have to be easier to sell than possibles at any price above normals.
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Thanks,



Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"



0.1 Wife (WC)

0.2 kids (CBB)

4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa

2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB

0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB

0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989

1.0 BCI albino / het-anery

0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino

0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino

0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)

1.0 BCI albino het stripe

1.0 BCI salmon hypo

0.1 BCI ghost



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats



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