Breeding hets can be thrilling or discouraging. This year I had six eggs from a het to het axanthic ball python pair, none of the hatchlings were axanthic. I would have been suspicious, but last year the same pair did produce axanthics, so I know they really are hets, I just got beaten by the odds. A year or so ago a person was posting about a het albino female that was bred by an albino male and no albinos were produced. The breeder was pissed, and pretty much said the the het female couldn't have been a het. The person (Tracy Barker) who'd bred the female and sold it to him respond that it was a het, no ifs ands or buts, there was no question that it was a het. Yes, she understood his doubts, and to get only hets from such a breeding was hard to believe. She went on to say the odds of it happening were the same as getting all albinos. Would he have complained about that? Would he have said it wasn't possible to get all ablinos from that pairing, that something else must be going on?
I realize I'm not addressing your situation directly, just the question of breeding hets. There could be something up with the snakes, an honest mistake (or not so honest) by the person who sold them too you. But it is possible they are both hets and you only got normal phenotypes, which really sucks for you. Still, if you breed them next year and get 3/4 blood boas I know you won't be complaining then. Hope this makes sense, and it does work out next year.

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