I really have no idea what morph my guy is

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

That's nice to know, I guess a feeding card is bare minimum as well as a nice plump healthy snake. :confusd::confusd::confusd:
BTW what is the point of giving away a water bowl??

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x2. Unless it involves recessive genes i don't plan to type up any special paper work. They'll get the feeding card for the snake and that's it, no water dishes or anything lol. If they ask more about who the parents were or anything else i'd be more than willing to provide the info/pics, but otherwise i feel that's enough and not the "bare minimum".

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Originally Posted by greenacid

He was in a VERY not to my liking environment. This person had hatchlings in just tubs sticking out of a shelving unit. Inside each tub was a water bowl and paper towel.

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That sounds like a standard setup for a hatchling rack.

The OP's snake sounds like it may be het for something, but without papers he has no clue what. Unless he's planning on breeding or selling it in the future, it's not something to stress about.

"Papers" are meaningless. It's the information that is key. It doesn't have to be formalized in "papers." If I know the breeder well enough, they can tell me verbally what it is an I'll just write it down to keep track myself. Otherwise I am just fine with a hand written feed card or an email so I know what to feed it to start off with.

As for the OP, if he said verbally to you that one of the parents was a Pied, then you have a Het. Of course you won't know for sure if he was telling the truth until you breed it to something else with the Pied gene.

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Originally Posted by kyote19

Papers may have no value from breeder to breeder but to a new person they may feel more secure.

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This is not necessarily completely true. It depends on who the breeders are. I bought a pair of het albinos back in 2004 from Adam at 8ballpythons, when he was still in the business. Both animals were given a genetically guaranteed document. Years later i traded the female to another pretty well known local breeder who knew Adam, and only accepted my trade because he knew Adam's "paper" would back up the genetics of the animal. In todays market, het albinos are not worth crap....but you get the idea.



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Many people may remember the scam the guy was running early on about selling normals with papers claiming them to be het. Got a good sum of money before people tried to prove his animals out and they didn't.

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