You need to become very familiar with the process of just a single recessive gene before you should start thinking about a double recessive gene snake.
Here, think of it like this.. You very likely carry the recessive albino gene. Many people do but the only way you would have an albino child is if you hooked up with someone else who also carried the albino gene.. Lets say you do carry the albino gene. You can not expect to have an albino child with someone who has "normal" genetics and does not carry the gene also right?
Same thing.. You can not make pieds by breeding a 100% het to a normal.
Visual x normal = 100%hets. All babies will look normal but will all be guaranteed 100%het for that gene..
Visual x visual = all visual. No normal appearing snakes at all..
100% het x 100% het = 66% possible hets. All babies will appear normal but each one has a 66% chance of actually being het for that gene. They can not be called hets until they are bred to another het, possible het, or visual, and actually produce a visual. Then they become 100% hets because they have been bred and proven to be so. Until then, they are just 66% possibles.
100% het x normal = 50% possible hets. All babies will be normal in appearance but each one has a 50% chance of carrying the gene. All the same rules apply as above..
Anything less is not worth mentioning. Like breeding 50% to 50% and so on.. Your odds of ever actually proving anything out and producing a visual drop down so low that its not worth the time or effort in my opinion to go lower than 66%hets. Plus, any baby you produce that did not come from an actual visual, which means any baby that is only some lower percentage of het NOT 100%, is only worth the price if a normal. They can not be sold for het prices unless they are 100% hets.
There is my laymen's terms to make it a bit easier hopefully. That's just for one recessive gene. When you start mixing two in there, it gets even more difficult if you can't afford to invest in at least one visual. I suggest in saving your money and getting a male pied. They have dropped down to as low as $600 now. Then a female het lavender. Or vice versa. Considering how many years it would take to produce an actual visual of each by starting with only a 100% het of each, which realistically could be 6 years or more, you can save up a few hundred dollars more in a much shorter amount of time and cut your project time in half.. You also would not need to hold back every single baby you produced, house them, feed them, then breed them 2-3 years down the road just to see if any of them are actually het for either of those 2 genes.
