Not sure about the Arabesque pattern, but since anerythrism and ablinism are both recessive traits, none of the offspring will be anery or albino. (To get an albino offspring, each parent has to have at least one mutant albino allele, which means it has to be either ablino or het for albino.) Statistically speaking, there's a 66% chance of the following:
1/4 off the offspring will be het for neither
1/4 will be het anery only
1/4 will be het for albino only
1/4 will be het for both

There's a 33% chance that:
0 will be het for albino
1/2 will be het for anery
1/2 will be normal (net for neither)

Not sure about pricing, but personally I wouldn't pay much more for a "50% het for anery, (.66*50%) het for albino snake. Again, not sure about the Arabesque pattern. From what I read, that is not recessive. So it might be possible some of the offspring could show some Arabesque-type pattern.

Hopefully I calculated that correctly. If not, I hope someone will correct me!


>>im new to breeding and i wish to know more about how het works... say i have this snake - 100% het Anery and 66% het Albino, born from an Arab h/albino to an Anery h/albino. and i breed it with a "normal" bci... what will i get? will they all just look like my normal bci? will they be better priced than if i just used two normals? what would i need to get for that first snake to have some albinos?

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