>i recently got some ball pythons from a high end dealer the parents were morphs but the ones i have aren't does this make them het for morphs?

It depends on what morphs that parents were. Maybe they are hets, but don't count on it. If they are hets, then they are hets for one of the recessive mutations.

>im not sure what types of morphs any of them are would i have to breed two that were both het for the same kind of morph to get a morph or could i breed them with other snakes and still get morphs.

Quick, simple answer is that you'd have to breed it to a snake that either shows the morph or is heterozygous for the morph. As you don't know the morph involved, picking the right morph is a crap shoot. It is not worth investing the time and money required to test these snakes.

If the dealer thought your snakes were hets, he should have identified the morph and probably would charge much more than for a normal. As the dealer did not identify the morph, if the price tag is close to the price of normals, then the dealer probably thought they were normals. That's my opinion, for what it's worth.

Paul Hollander

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• het question - bc422, Mon Aug 7 18:57:37 2006
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