het red axanthic just means the snake is a carrier for the recessive 'red axanthic' trait. Same as a het albino (normal looking snake which carries the albino gene.) Recessive traits need to have two genes inorder for it to physically appear like that trait. Pastels are co-dominant, though technically they are still 'hets' as two pastel genes will produce a different visually appearing snake than a 'het' pastel. Both are still very different from the normal wild appearance.

Hets of recessive traits will always look like normal wild type snakes.
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