For example: If I buy a group of animals that consists of a male anaconda and two female toffeebellies with the intention of making my own toffeebelly anacondas from scratch, I don't want them to be poss. het for anything else that will just contaminate my project. To me, when I finally get to the point where I am breeding offspring back together if I popped out t negative albinos and triple homo morphs because one or more of the founding animals were poss het albino, I would be devastated. I for one don’t see a point to breeding a t positive to a t negative albino, because the double homo version is usually pretty much indistinguishable from a t negative because its influence wipes out the melanin from the t positive animal. This would just add unnecessary confusion to the project and it could take as long or longer to remove the trait as you already have into the project. I also don't want to be breeding an anery that's poss. het for hypo into my snow projects, or visa versa. Once I have known clean lines of genetics in my designer morphs, I can then choose at my discretion to breed them to each other to produce triple, quadruple, or as many homo traits being expressed at once as I choose.

I especially don’t want to be “forced” to work with animals that I have intentionally avoided due to weak genetics. I don’t want to find out years down the road that my line has issues due to misrepresented animals that have passed on a genetic flaw that I didn’t sign up for.

If I want a double het or poss. het, I’ll buy it. I have regular anacondas, albinos, anerys, and normals, which I always plan on producing animals out of that are pure. I want them clean to start new projects with and I know others do as well. I understand it is hard to know the genetics of your animals 100%, so there are acceptable examples. The conda is a good one. Unless they have been proven to not carry the ppa trait, there is always the chance that they are het. But this has been publicly announced.
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