First let me say I think you have a great attitude and that is very nice to see-you have been very realistic, and of course no one wants to have a result that wasn't what he/she expected after all the hard and good work you did.

I am not saying if the female is a het or is not a het, but I do think it is important to realize despite the bad odds-at this point, it really is not realistic on the basis of at least this one result to determine that she is ruled out as a het.

There have been numerous examples of codoms and dominants bred to normals with this clutch size that have resulted in normals. There have been numerous examples of homozygous to het animals that have resulted in normals.

This IS NOT a big enough sample size to determine if she is or if she isn't.

Case in point. If you have been reading the Boa forum, you would see there have been several examples of litters from PROVEN albino animals to PROVEN hets, where there are litters of close to 30 babies with 1 or 2 or NO ALBINOS produced! Now those are sample sizes that you are seeing right before your eyes-and it shows you that these ball python numbers, even as large as 9 eggs or up to 15 eggs are not enough to show anything in a single clutch.

I would repeat the breeding and see if you have better luck next time and hopefully time will tell if she is or is not a 100% het.

I think your view of the fact that you have 9 new 100% hets is the best view and that is a great result, despite the either bad odds or the fact she might not be a het.

Tracy/VPI

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