If you are interested in the snake, you call the guy and ask what he means by "25% het." If he can give you the entire family tree of the animal, then you can decide whether the chance of catching a gene from that tree is worth whatever he's asking. If he can't give you the entire family tree of that animal, you have to decide whether he has any clue about genetics. If he doesn't seem to have a clue, you should consider the snake to be a normal and decide whether that normal fits your plans.

Most people admit to selling normal-looking hatchlings as normals if there's no place for them in a breeding program. However, many of these breeders are trying to produce morphs and are producing hatchlings from morphs and hets. One can assume that the average CBB ball python may have some recessive trait in its genes because relatively few people are breeding normal ball pythons to normal ball pythons just to produce more normal ball pythons. If you really have to know that it doesn't have some recessive gene, you're going to have to do major geneology. If you really have to know that it does have some recessive gene, you shouldn't count on a 25% chance.


Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

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• Pastel 25% het pied? - kitten6500, Sat Apr 22 20:16:41 2006
• RE: Pastel 25% het pied? - repzoo44, Sat Apr 22 20:21:24 2006
• RE: Pastel 25% het pied? - Emberball, Sat Apr 22 20:46:29 2006
• Why would that be a deal breaker? n/p - coldbloodaddict, Sat Apr 22 20:54:20 2006
• RE: Why would that be a deal breaker? n/p - EmberBall, Sat Apr 22 21:04:42 2006
• RE: Why would that be a deal breaker? n/ - toshamc, Sat Apr 22 21:11:58 2006
• RE: Why would that be a deal breaker? n/ - coldbloodaddict, Sat Apr 22 21:30:30 2006
• RE: Why would that be a deal breaker? n/ - repzoo44, Sat Apr 22 21:33:09 2006
• I'm breeding a pair of 25% chance ... - RandyRemington, Sat Apr 22 21:58:30 2006
• RE: I'm breeding a pair of 25% chance ... - coldthumb, Sun Apr 23 11:07:25 2006
• RE: Pastel 25% het pied? - coldbloodaddict, Sat Apr 22 20:45:49 2006
• RE: Pastel 25% het pied? - kitten6500, Sat Apr 22 22:30:30 2006
• RE: Pastel 25% het pied? - joshhutto, Sun Apr 23 13:10:47 2006
• It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - John Q, Sun Apr 23 10:19:09 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - nita, Sun Apr 23 10:49:27 2006
• Hmmm..Not Sure! - reptilicus81, Sun Apr 23 11:35:54 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - EmberBall, Sun Apr 23 13:13:17 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - toshamc, Sun Apr 23 13:34:25 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - EmberBall, Sun Apr 23 13:39:13 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - reptilicus81, Sun Apr 23 14:46:30 2006
• Percentages - RandyRemington, Sun Apr 23 15:56:42 2006
• RE: Percentages - EmberBall, Sun Apr 23 16:05:54 2006
• 25% hets - RandyRemington, Sun Apr 23 16:21:14 2006
• RE: 25% hets - EmberBall, Sun Apr 23 19:25:16 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - John Q, Sun Apr 23 15:02:35 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - EmberBall, Sun Apr 23 15:52:00 2006
• Why Ficticious? - RandyRemington, Sun Apr 23 16:03:47 2006
• Good example ! - John Q, Sun Apr 23 17:27:58 2006
• RE: Good example ! - RandyRemington, Sun Apr 23 20:39:45 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - Eric Sandoval, Sun Apr 23 14:16:02 2006
• Accidental Hets - RandyRemington, Sun Apr 23 15:49:04 2006
• RE: Accidental Hets - reptilicus81, Sun Apr 23 16:17:25 2006
• RE: Accidental Hets - toshamc, Sun Apr 23 16:41:00 2006
• Time is Money - RandyRemington, Sun Apr 23 16:44:58 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - John Q, Sun Apr 23 16:43:03 2006
• RE: It's called FULL DISCLOSURE ! - reptilicus81, Sun Apr 23 18:27:49 2006
• Here's a simple solution. - wftright, Sun Apr 23 18:38:21 2006