Possible Offspring

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Originally Posted by Nvar

Thanks much for the very useful info. You've answered my next question too which was breeding back to the mother. Is there a way to tell if an offspring is het or not? Is it designated as possible het since it has one parent of the morph type and is only proven het after it is breed and produces morph offspring?

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If you breed a visual to anything, all the offspring will be hets.

If you breed a het to a normal, or another het, then all of the offspring will possibly be het. There is no definite way to know which ones are het and which ones are not. Some of the het pieds may have a het pied maker, which is two solid black lines that are each side of the snakes belly near the tail. Here is a picture of the het pied marker:

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/HPNX0042.jpg

Hope this helps.

You would get Het Pieds and Spider Het Pieds.

I would get a female Pied and raise her up, while the result will be the same however the time frame will be different.

With a female pied to get a Spider Pied you would only need to keep a male Spider Het Pied and breed it back to it’s mom, which would take less time than raising female Spider Het Pieds and breeding them back to their dad if you had a male. ;)

Boy O Boy. I feel like a kid at Christmas thinking of the fun of breeding and the possible little wigglers I will get (hopefully in 3 or 4 years).

Again, many thanks to you all. And WooHoo!! I just made the committment and purchased a female visual Pied from J. Kobylka. Been wanting this for a while now.

If I may use this thread to ask a different question. I am also changing from my one trusty glass tank to a small RBI rack system. I know the ambient temp of a tank should be 80 to 85 degrees and have a basking area in the 90 to 95 degree temp range. How do you achieve this in a tub/rack system? Do I set the heating portion for the basking temp and it achieves the ambient temp through separation from the heat source?

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Again, many thanks to you all. And WooHoo!! I just made the committment and purchased a female visual Pied from J. Kobylka. Been wanting this for a while now.

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Congrats you will be very happy with her without a doubt Justin has some amazing animals :gj:

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Originally Posted by Nvar

Boy O Boy. I feel like a kid at Christmas thinking of the fun of breeding and the possible little wigglers I will get (hopefully in 3 or 4 years).

Again, many thanks to you all. And WooHoo!! I just made the committment and purchased a female visual Pied from J. Kobylka. Been wanting this for a while now.

If I may use this thread to ask a different question. I am also changing from my one trusty glass tank to a small RBI rack system. I know the ambient temp of a tank should be 80 to 85 degrees and have a basking area in the 90 to 95 degree temp range. How do you achieve this in a tub/rack system? Do I set the heating portion for the basking temp and it achieves the ambient temp through separation from the heat source?

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Grats on the pied. I love pieds.

The rack should be heated with flexwatt. You need a temperature controller to measure and control the heat. The temp controller probe will be placed behind one of the tubs in the rack to measure the hotspot in your tubs. If the ambient temp is not high enough, you may need to heat the room that the rack is in. I use oil-filled radiators to heat my snake room. I suggest purchasing a temperature gun to measure your temps. You can buy them for around $25. They are great for snake owners who have to measure more than one enclosure.

I have a temp gun already and the rack will be inside my home so temps shouldn't be an issue. I live in FL which makes maintaining temp and humidity fairly easy.

Also, do you typically put a single thermostat probe at the back of the tub and use it to regulate temp for the entire rack or do I need a thermostat that can do multiple sources?

Not being familar with racks, is the flex tape a single heat source for the entire rack or is it multiple sources, one for each tub?