"I do not claim to be educated in the genetics field and cannot compute the chances of how offspring will turn out. But, lets take an albino male snake and breed to a normal female. What do you get, HETS. Not 2/3 albinos. Am I wrong with this line of thinking??"



If speckling were the product of a simple recessive what you say would be true, but it is not.



"if you bred that snake with another female that did not have those marks would you get from the f1 breeding offspring that were half speckled and triple alternated as depicted in the pictures that DJ has posted?Have you ever seen a wild Hueco snake or any other f1 Hueco snake that exhibited those traits, besides DJ's?"



Have you ever seen a WC Langtry alterna morph paired with a WC Langtry blairs produce alterna morphs? Why would Huecos with a busier pattern be any different?



Furthermore... here's a WC Hueco that was collected years ago by Richard Worthington:





To my knowledge the vast majority of Huecos collected over the last 5 years have not looked anything like the above snake. In that regard it would be atypical. Do you think were it to be paired with another Hueco that its offspring would have a higher chance of producing offspring with orange? My guess would be yes. If that's the case... why then would speckling be any different?



Furthermore... if a snake from the Eagle Mountains (Hudspeth County) can look like this:





... why would it be difficult to accept the idea that a Hudspeth county Hueco might display a similar phenotype?

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