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Is there anyway (other than breeding and seeing what you you get) to tell if you're snake is a possible het? We are new to the morph world and just curious.

Not a dumb question and I am sure you will get many answers. The simple answer is yes you will need to breed them to "prove" them out but for the biggest part people who sell you 100% hets will send you or supply you with paperwork attesting to their pedegree as to being 100% and some are said to be 66 and 50% het for one thing or another. Occasionally you will get what they call markers which are traits some hets carry but not always and even if you see "a trait" in a snake it does not prove that the snake is het for anything.. Some of the more identifiable markers or traits to a het I believe are found with the het Pieds. They seem to very often have a pretty good little line of black scales on the last 1/3 or 1/4 of their bodies on each side right where the sides go under to the belly running lenght wise along that area. Hope that helps some and I am sure you will get a good bit more help from tthe right people on here. Have a good evening, Jay
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Hets can be tricky you may need to breed them more than one year to prove them out also. You can miss getting a morph in a clutch.

I just missed with a codom big time. Albino x spider breeding 0 spiders out of 5 babys but I know he is a spider. Same thing with hets. I know someone who had to breed a pair of het albinos 3 times before they got an albino.

Breeding is the only affordable way

in the future, it might be possible to do a DNA test, but not before the ball python genome have been analysed and then you would need ot know where and what type of chromosome to test.

When we come to this, the ball python market will be satured and a possible won't be worth the money to test. Would be less expensive to buy the het or the phase itself. (That part is my opinion and how I see it).

there is also the "marking" of some het but I wouldn't trust that.
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