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I was reading some posts on another forum and heard someone use the term "test for hets" How would you do that? breed to a normal and see what u get?

You would breed to an animal that showed the trait you suspected it might be het for. For example: I have a snake that "might" be het for albino (66% chance). If I breed him to my albino and get even a single albino out of the offspring, then he IS het. If I get NO albino offspring, he probably is not. The more offspring I get that are NOT albino (assuming that NONE are) the surer I am that he is not het for albino.

Both of my breeding pairs could be considered testing for hets. I bred a snake that I am pretty sure is a Charcoal to a Snow. Since anery A, and B are not compatable I am hoping for all normal babies proving she is indeed a Charcoal. MY other is a Normal het Anery to an Amel. Depending on the offspring I should be a lot closer to finding what if any hets the Amel is hiding. I could be looking at a whole bunch of Normals. But until you do some "test" you really never know what is going to pop out.
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1,0 snow
1,0 amel
1,0 texas corn
1,0 aney stripe motley
0,1 normal
0,1 charcoal
0,1 motley
1,1 oketee
0,1 tx rat
1,0 diadem
4,5 ball python
1,1 dumerils boa
1,1 columbian red tail boa
1,1 green iguana
1,0 leopard gecko
1,2 dogs
freezer full of mice & rats