x number of customers and these customers have had results. Of the projects we have started (clown; VPI axanthic; genetic stripe; albino bloods, paradox sand boas etc there wouldn't be any around if it wasn't the real deal. Unfortunately there are people who use other people's names to sell their animals. I personally have been called by a third party to inquire if I sold het animals to an individual-and I absolutely had not sold the guy hets. I looked back on my records and I had sold the guy normals-and he was trying to sell them as hets. He paid $500 for the pair of snakes and was trying to sell them for $5K. He would not have been able to prove he had purchased "het" animals from us because he had sent me a MO for $500! I scan every check/MO I get, and it was very easy to go back, check my QuickBooks for the sale and find the scanned image of the MO he had paid me. I sent copies of these to the person who was going to buy the snakes and he confronted the person who was trying to sell him the snakes.



People have to remember the odds can go any way. Not hatching a recessive mutation out of 5 eggs doesn't prove anything. You could unfortunately do that for a life time. Ask the bigger breeders who have gotten 0/8 one clutch, but then produced 3/5 the next, even from their own projects! You will hear about the 0/8, but not the 4/8!! Yes there is risk, but the odds wouldn't be what they were unless it was a proven scientific result over time (since Mendel). Remember-even when you breed codominant traits that yield a theoretical 50% result, you can get 0/8, so to not get a 1/4 result, can't be surprising to you. It doesn't "owe" you, each egg has a 1/4 chance of being the recessive you are looking for.

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