I think that a 25% het is too sketchy! What.. are we going to breed two 25% hets and get a 12.5% het? Or two 33% hets and get a 16.5% het? If the 50% het is old enough to breed why not prove it out? IMO breeding a 50% het pied to anything other than 100% het for pied or pied is a waste of time and money. He could certainly make a nice paycheck if he proves it(the possible het pied) out het or he breeds it to produce pied...or even selling 50% hets for pastel/pied. Also, if people start buying 25% hets or what not I am betting bogus breeders will take advantage of this! They will prove their 50% clown to be normal, but start using it (and its paperwork) to produce 25% possible hets.

Now for my other point...maybe he (the breeder in the ad) just can't do a genetics problem?!

Now if he bred a pastel to a 100% het pied you would see the following results:
Key:
Pastel= PN
Non pastel =NN
Pied = xx
Het Pied= Xx
Non pied= XX



So you would end up with:
25% Pastel Normal
25% Pastel het Pied
25% Normal
25% Normal het Pied

If you had a normal baby it would have a 50% chance of being het pied. If you had a pastel baby it would have a 50% chance of being het pied. Maybe he just looked at the punnet square and didn't finish the problem Probably not huh?!
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3.12 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball python
1.0 Plains Garter
0.1 Rosy boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
1.1 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
-----My list is too long, so I'll stop here!
*Amy*

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