1. Each snake can only have two versions of the same gene, one from mom and one from dad.



2. It can only pass one version of that gene to each offspring.



The two versions of this blue eyed leucistic complex gene that a lesser has are lesser and the normal version of this gene. So the lesser does not have the hidden version to pass on.



To produce hiddens and hidden combos like platy you need at least one of the parents to have the hidden gene per rule 1.



A platy parent can pass on the hidden gene but the same baby can't get both the hidden and the lesser versions from the platy parent because they are two versions of the same gene and that would violate rule 2 above (just like albino X normal can't give two copies of albino to produce an albino). So to make a platy you have to get hidden from one parent and lesser from the other. A hidden or even homozygous hidden parent can also pass on the hidden version of this gene.

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