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How many hets can one snake have?
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it depends i suppose.... last year i bred my miami female (emily) to her son (henry VIII) who is a normal and got normals, amels, hypos, anerys, ghosts, snows, motleys. SO i bred them again this year... of course they were the last eggs to be laid, but they are still incubating... i'll let you know around 7-8
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Off the top of my head i think you will max out at about 4 or 5 KNOWN hets. I say this though without doing the calculations.

Has anyone produced one with more that 4 traits showing in one snake?
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Depends upon how many gene pairs a corn snake has.
Probably thousands. Anyone know?
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>>How many hets can one snake have?
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>> Positive Thoughts Equal Positive Results

with the growing number of morphs, patterns and combinations of both the number of hets would have to be rising as well.
I don't know if there is some form of genteic limitation on morphs but I can easily see an example of an animal that could have at least eight hets.
We've all seen quad hets.....so...
Let's say you have a normal that is het amel, anery, motley and caramel and breed it to a normal that is het hypo, charcoal lavender and bloodred. I guess it is possible to get snakes het for those traits. They are all single recessives.
So you breed those snakes together and there is an ever-so-slight chance of getting a normal that is het for amel, anery, charcoal, hypo, motley, caramel, lavender and bloodred.
Of course, you wouldn't know until these traits were proven. How long would it take to prove them all out?
So, I guess the number of possible hets could be increasing daily.
You think there may be some genetic limitation to possible hets? I sure don't know but it is interesting.
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