Breeding pastel het clown to non het

[LotsaBalls]

Thoughts? I've got a male pastel het clown that is ready to breed but my females het/PH girls won't be until next year. I'm toying with the idea of breeding him to a normal or maybe a pastel going off of that a lot of people say you can make a good guess about which ones are het clown. I was planning on putting my male enchi with my bee but maybe her also.

[SlitherinSisters]

You really can't pick out any hets from a pos het group. You can guess that the lighter ones are hets, but that's not always the case, you have a 50/50 chance of being right or wrong. If you want to do the breeding and hold back all the pastel females, that's what I would do.

[twistedtails]

You really can't pick out any hets from a pos het group. You can guess that the lighter ones are hets, but that's not always the case, you have a 50/50 chance of being right or wrong. If you want to do the breeding and hold back all the pastel females, that's what I would do.

I completely disagree with you. A trained eye can pick a het clown out of a group IMO. Some are harder to pick out obviously due to the fact that some are darker than most het clowns. I have 4 poss het clown girls right now....I'm guessing all 4 will prove out. These girls up against the normals I have in my collection stand out totally. I guess we will see when the results come in. I will post them anyway. Post some pics of your pastel het clown male. I would like to see him.

[mmateo]

total waste of time to breed for pos hets

[LotsaBalls]

I completely disagree with you. A trained eye can pick a het clown out of a group IMO. Some are harder to pick out obviously due to the fact that some are darker than most het clowns. I have 4 poss het clown girls right now....I'm guessing all 4 will prove out. These girls up against the normals I have in my collection stand out totally. I guess we will see when the results come in. I will post them anyway. Post some pics of your pastel het clown male. I would like to see him.

I have problems posting pictures for some reason plus my desktop is just a big paperweight at the moment. I have a couple older ones of him in my gallery.

[snakesRkewl]

I'm with Mike, het clowns are fairly easy to pick out

The best marker for het clowns from what I see is the neck stripe...
2 different female hets...same type striping



Which is also on the yellowbelly het clowns...that gold stripe just glows in person


As always, this marker is only usable in a clutch situation, it doesn't mean you can go to petco and grab a snake with a neck stripe and try to prove it out.

[purplemuffin]

It's up to you. If you get lucky, you'll have extra het girls to breed, if not, you have extra normals(if you hold them all back)

I would probably instead of breeding it to a normal breed it to a morph... A possible pastel-enchi poss het clown sells a lot better than a normal poss het clown or even just a pastel poss het clown! (especially with so many pastel 100% hets out there)