Questionable 100% Het. ?

Just to add to what others have said. Yes it is possible that even a reputable breeder could make a mistake. But like Tim said, there are levels of insurance against that, that I and many other breeders take such as images of the animal as soon as it sheds.

Its essentially like fingerprinting every snake and makes it exponentially more difficult to make that "mistake"

I know for me, I had some hetero animals that got mixed up and I could not sort it out with photo records, they would be held back or sold as normals.

Justin

Oh and another level of protection that some of us take, is to keep the same females involved in the same morph project on consecutive years so that there is no possibility of sperm retention from the previous year screwing up the resulting offspring....

There's a low likelihood of that happening, but as the breeder its my job to make sure it doesn't happen.
Justin

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Originally Posted by jkobylka

Oh and another level of protection that some of us take, is to keep the same females involved in the same morph project on consecutive years so that there is no possibility of sperm retention from the previous year screwing up the resulting offspring....

There's a low likelihood of that happening, but as the breeder its my job to make sure it doesn't happen.
Justin

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That's a good point Justin. I wish there were definitive studies out there that show how long retention is possible.

I know for Mike and I hets will always be bought from only the most reputable of breeders (be they a big breeder or just a close friend with a small breeding group). For us it's just not worth the time to raise up hets to breeding size that may or may not be what they were sold to us as.