Is there a way to tell het pied on appearance?

Ok, i was told that the 'checker' or 'ladder' pattern on the belly of a ball pythin i traded for meant that it was het for pied. I'm not mad if it isn't because it does have beautiful markings regardless (and i got more than one snake out of the deal) but i wanted to check and make sure this was accurate and that the breeder wasn't yankin' my chain. I compared her to my two normals and he was right, she does have a great checkered grey pattern on her belly, and i never really noticed how one of my normals has a slight checkered pattern too.
I figured i would ask the best and make sure i stayed 'in the know' about it. Thanks!

Checkered isn't the pattern normally referred to as being a het pied marker.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showp...6&postcount=11

you never realy know until you prove it out unless it came from a notable breeder, there are different markings that people say to help identify a het. But its hard to tell some have the marking some dont, the same goes for normals some normals may have a marking that you may think is a het indicator when it realy is not. Good Luck with him!

I dont think that there really is, i have seen het pieds and they all looked different.

Ok, here are some pictures of her. I think that'll help :P
She is a beautiful normal, if nothing else.
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/o...c/HPIM1749.jpg

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/o...c/HPIM1743.jpg

That doesn't look like a het pied marker. If you look at the pics in that link that is what they look like. I have a bunch of normals from non pied breedings that have the marker so just because one does have the look doesn't mean it's a het pied. Now on the other hand I've probably hatched over 100 het pieds and every single one has the marker to some extent or another. So if I were buying hets or possible hets I would be looking for ones with it. Personally I think since there is such a reliable marker for het pieds the selling of possible hets is a little questionable and there should definitely be a price difference in poss hets with the marker and without it.

Eric

Markers are hardly reliable.

Recessive genes, by definition, don't affect an animal that is heterozygous for the gene.

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

Markers are hardly reliable.

Recessive genes, by definition, don't affect an animal that is heterozygous for the gene.

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The marker for het pieds is very reliable. If you put 50 random het pieds in a container with 50 random normals, I bet you I could pick the hets with 95% accuracy.

Eric

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

Markers are hardly reliable.

Recessive genes, by definition, don't affect an animal that is heterozygous for the gene.

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If that were true there would be no yellow bellies.

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Originally Posted by RichardA

If that were true there would be no yellow bellies.

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Tell me about pastels

Then tell me about Spiders.

Then tell me about Mojaves.


Now tell me about yellowbellies.