Obviously at least one person that responded to this post is looking at the situation in a negative way. Others are looking at it in a more positive manner. I think that we all need to look at the importance of disclosing as much information about our hatchlings as possible. Money aside, a pastel that's a possible possible het. Like others said, if the price is right why not? As long as you know what you are getting.

However, now that we are seeing multiple gene morphs it is very important to know exactly what you are working with. What if the breeder did not disclose this info and the normal looking offspring that are hets are sold as normals. You buy a couple of females, one is a het and one is a normal, raise them, and breed them to your 100% het for XYZ. You raise the females from those first two females and breed them back to the original male. Not a single visible morph hatchling is produced in a couple of clutches. You immediately have doubts in your male 100% het actually being a het. You've got 4-5 years invested in the project and THINK that you missed. You didn't miss, there's another gene involved and that changes all the percentages. You just have not produced enough hatchlings to see the desired results or even the hidden gene. Just imagine if you slam the breeder that sold you the male het! Also, you move these double het females into another project. Never knowing what you may really have.
I know that some may read this and think it will never happen, etc. Well, just watch this years corn snake production. Check the forums and classifieds. Balls are following a very similar path in terms of multi hets. A few years ago a friend produced a couple of clutches of lavenders. He also had a couple of snows and anerys in the clutch. He never knew about the albino and anery gene being present. He never knew he was working with multi hets. The next year it happened to me. Our stock was not directly related but the original breeders came from a very well known breeder of corns. He sells possible hets as normals and does not disclose the facts about his visual morphs being a possible het for another gene.

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