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if I put a 100% het for albino male and a 66% het
for albino female together.
what should the young be?

if your female proves out then you should get an albino. the best of luck to you.

See what the problem is, that you really don't know what the 66% really is. Because in reality there is no such thing as a 66% het. Your snake is either a 100% het or a normal. So if it "proves out" then statistically out of every 4 eggs, you should get 1 albino, 1 normal, and 2 100% hets. Since you cannot tell the difference between the normal and the hets, they are added together and average out to 66%.

If your 66% proves to be a normal, all your snakes will look normal, and out of 4 eggs you will get 1 100% het for albino and 3 normals. But again, since you cannot tell the difference then you can sell them as 33% hets.

Best of luck,

Steven Aguilar
srsnakes

If it turns out that your female missed her 66% chance then all the babies will look normal but each will have a 50% chance of getting the albino gene from dad. The chance is per baby and there is no guarantee that out of every 4 babies you will get 2 hets but that is the predicted ratio for hets from het X normal, not 1 out of 4.

If it turns out that she hit her 66% chance and is a het then you still need to get lucky enough to hatch an albino. Each egg will have a 25% chance of being albino. Again, no guarantee of 1 albino, two hets, and a normal out of ever 4 eggs, that's just the ratio of the odds for each egg.

Here is a page that gives the odds for getting at least one albino out of a given number of eggs from het X het. Basically, the more eggs you hatch the better your chances.
Table with odds of mutant from recessive het x het given number of eggs

is there no DNA/Blood testing for snakes or what? or is it too expensive to do? i think that would be alot better than selling a 66% or 50% het. so you will know for sure if its normal or it carries the gene.

I know someone who looked into the possibility of coming up with a genetic test for het piebald a few years ago but I'm not aware of any available tests now. Maybe as the technology gets better and cheaper we will see one some day but right now I think the cost and time (remember the morphs are getting cheaper while the test is being developed) of finding the gene responsible (a proverbial needle in a hay stack), developing an inexpensive probe, and selling it to a limited and volatile market are daunting obstacles.