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is this possible? this pair is being sold as a normal male and a platinum lesser het. female. i thought lesser was codom? so there cant be a het.

You are correct
Lesser is a co-dom and no way to have a het

Travis
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Lesser is codom.

Maybe it carries the gene to make "Platty daddies" as Ralph Davis calls them, but it is not a lesser or "het lesser."
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If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

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these two are just then?so what are Platty daddies? are they just normals from a clutch that had some lessers?

There is no such thing as Het Lesser and Lessers are already the Heterozygous form of the Homozygous Blue Eyed Leucistic. There is a Het Platty that when mixes with Lesser Produces the Homozygous Platty Daddy, but going by the picture I would say these are just siblings from a Lesser X Normal clutch, which means they are just normals.
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I was under the impression that platty daddies are a combination of an unexplained gene and the lesser.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

It is somewhat unexplained at the moment right now it is a normal looking snake that is a carrier for the "Daddy" gene. Ralph believes he made a Homozygous Het Daddy that looks normal. But we know for sure that the Het Daddy (normal looking snake)bred to a Lesser has a 1 in 4 chance of producing a platty daddy which is a Homozygous moroph meaning you can't reproduce a Platty Daddy by breeding a Platty Daddy to a normal
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Sloan Reptiles
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"Going from the picture" and the context given I would say this is a scam, ignorant seller or not...
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robyn@proexotics.com

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the seller says those two produced this?

1 of 2 things is happening here...

Either he's stumbled onto some new recessive gene that LOOKS like a lesser...

or

His female was bred to a lesser at some point and retained sperm.

Or a possible third option...

(That's the troll face...the seller, not you.)
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

or the seller is just a flat out idiot and a troll that has no business breeding/selling snakes if they can't keep track of something that simple.

there's been several ads on CL here for "het spiders" or "het pastels" when in reality they are just normals that are siblings to spiders or pastels
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it turns out that the seller was told they made it from the previs owner.somebody got scamed!

Unless there is anew development in the genetics of the lesser, you are right. Lesser is a Co-Dom mutation, therefore, there can't be a "Het Lesser". Each lesser has ONE "LESSER" gene... if anything, a lesser could be called a "Het BEL" since the presence of TWO "LESSER" genes in the same animal is expressed as a Blue Eyed Leucistic.
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