How to identify Het clown Ball python?

I have been searching the forum for about an hour looking for a thread on het clowns but not luck so i posted my own. I am Just wondering are there like any identifying marker/colors for het clown ball pythons,or can some one post pictures of there het clowns. Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by Ballpython1237

I have been searching the forum for about an hour looking for a thread on het clowns but not luck so i posted my own. I am Just wondering are there like any identifying marker/colors for het clown ball pythons,or can some one post pictures of there het clowns. Thanks in advance.

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If you want true hets BUY FROM A TRUSTED BREEDER! Point blank ;)

heterozygous (het) means the animal is completely normal looking, but carries the gene to create the morph in question when bred to another heterozygous animal or a visual of the morph.

if any "het" has a visual het form, it is no longer a het, it is a codominant animal.

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Originally Posted by joepythons

If you want true hets BUY FROM A TRUSTED BREEDER! Point blank ;)

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Agreed! Make sure you get paperwork and get it from a well known breeder that you know will be there is 3 or 4 years if it doesn't prove out!

Here is an older thread where we had a discussion re het clown identifiers. :D

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...rph-het-clowns

Pied is a good example of a mutation that is considered recessive but has sporadic (common actually) co-dominant tendencies. Seems that clown might also not be text book recessive but perhaps less common to show in the hets, at least unless mixed with certain other mutations.

doesn't het carry the gene but none of the look?

Look at the parents.

I don't trust the old "go with a reputable breeder" alone when it comes to hets. I've recently seen some discussion about hets from reputable breeders NOT proving out and the reputable breeders blaming that on their employees switching snakes around.
Which can turn into a mess of finger pointing.

I would only consider buying hets from a breeder that is not only reputable, but that has a bombproof way of guaranteeing them. Example, microchipping some snakes. Pictures !!! Pictures of the adult on eggs, marking the eggs right away, pictures of snakes coming out of the eggs, good quality pictures of hatchlings from different angles. Paperwork with pictures, or chip numbers, etc etc. Good written guarantee based on the foolproof system.

I would want more then just reputation. I would want an actual system in place. As fool proof as possible. Definitely more then "marked tubs".

Nothing more disappointing then buying hets, raising them up, finally being able to breed them and ...they don't proof out. Then waiting a year, breeding them AGAIN to make "sure" and again, nothing.

Thanks for the input, that thread on het clowns was really helpful! Guess i just have to wait and see to prove her out for sure.