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hi im new to this forum so first of all hi to every1. ok my question is how do double hets work? i know how normal hets work, so if u have a double does that mean it is het for 2 different colours for example snow and ghost?if so how do you go bout breeding/getting double hets.

cheers

>>hi im new to this forum so first of all hi to every1. ok my question is how do double hets work? i know how normal hets work, so if u have a double does that mean it is het for 2 different colours for example snow and ghost?if so how do you go bout breeding/getting double hets.
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>> cheers

And to completely and utterly lose us all, can someone throw out a quick and easy "triple hets" how to as well? Many, many thanks.
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"Colubrid-aphilia", adj; An inordinate love of Colubrids.

Both snows and ghost are double hets. You get a double het by breeding two simple recessive traits to each other. As in a albino male breed to a anery female. The result would be double het snow because the combined result of those two traits is snow. If the off spring of the pair (double het snows) were breed 1 in 16 would be snow on average. There would also be albinos and anerys and normals. If you don't understand the genetics I would suggest buying a good book or looking at albinotricolors.com. as far as books the cornsnake manual by the Loves has a good genetic section. And if you can understand the current corn morphs you can understand anything
Later Jason

Check out Terry Dunhams genetic page here ;

http://www.albinotricolors.com/genetics.html
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Marc Bouchard
Selectively Bred Serpents
www.selectively-bred-serpents.ca

First off, Hi and welcome.
I think Jason had intended to say that a Snow or Ghost are Double Homos and not double hets.
But his direction of reading through Terrys page on genetics may help you get started.
If not just let us know where you got lost.
Kind Regards,
Adam

ahh iv looked at the wed site and it has explained alot.still slightly confused but where wud b the fun if it was simple.lol cheers for the help.

>>ahh iv looked at the wed site and it has explained alot.still slightly confused but where wud b the fun if it was simple.lol cheers for the help.

if people tell me WHERE on the site i lost them, i'll try to explain AND it'll give me a chance to see if the site needs improvements. So let me know.

terry
albino tricolors