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Ok I'm new to this het thing, and have a few questions.

I went to the genetics wizard, and found out what I would get if I breed my albino burm with a double het for albino,and granite.

It said I would get;

25% het for albino
25%double hets
25%albino
25%albino,het for granite

so 50% will look normal and 50% will be albino. Of the albino ones 50% will be het for granite too.Is thier a test to find out which albino ones are the hets?

Thanks.

BTW this is just an idea, I wouldn't be ready to breed for a year or so, and I'm not sure I'd do it then.This is just what happens when I get too much time on my hands.

Thanks

Well luckily you have granite hets. Granite hets do seem to generally show a pattern difference that normals do not. As far as I know, this is not 100%, but I do think that it makes a diffence.

I dont know if there are any tell-tale signs with any of the other hets, but I dont think so. And I may be wrong on this, but it just seems that you can tell a granite het from one that isnt.

Dustin
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1.0 Albino Green Burm
0.2 Normal Burm
1.1 Java Retic

Dustin is correct that the abharrent pattern of granite hets are a good give away but one still can't 100% declare the snake to be het for granite just by the pattern. As far as an actual genetic test to determine whether a snake is het for a trait or not it is not possible. I have been thinking about this for a long time now cuz it could really shake up the hobby. Think about this, If there was a way to determine whether a dominate morph was a het version or a homo version. I got thinking about this becasue of the bumblebee ball pythons. For you that do not know they are a pastel spider ball. Now the pastel is co-dominate and the spider is dominate. If you obtained a super pastel (homo pastel) and there was I test that could determine whether or not the spider was homo. You breed a homo spider with a superpastel and BAM a whole clutch of $40,000 bumblebees. SOmeday maybe they will develope this test. It will change the business that is for sure. Todd

Ok so I would have good chance of being able to tell by the way the pattern looks, but not 100% right. cool.

Thanks!