Huh?

[Simpson Balls]

Well I see post all the time on reptile classifieds and stumble across quite a few 50% het this and 50% het that. Now I do know what double morphs are but when people say 50% this and that for example 50% het pied and 50% het Lav albino is it like saying well it's poss 50% het this and that but were not sure?

Daniel

I just don't and it and to tell everyone the truth I don't know if my post makes sense?

[Patrick Long]

Means the animal is Possible double heterozygous for pied and lav albino.

50% chance that they are hets

[Simpson Balls]

Means the animal is Possible double heterozygous for pied and lav albino.

50% chance that they are hets

Thanks,

Daniel

[mainbutter]

to expand on what patrick said:

The heterozygous form of recessive mutations looks the same as a normal ball python. There is no visual way to tell the difference between a heterozygous recessive trait BP and a normal.

That said, if you breed an animal that is heterozygous for a recessive trait, albino for example, to a normal, each egg has a 50% chance of being normal and a 50% chance of being heterozygous for albino. However all the offspring will look normal, so each animal produced has a 50% chance to be het for albino. You don't know until you breed each animal to another known to have the albino gene and produce some albinos from that breeding.

[771subliminal]

Well I see post all the time on reptile classifieds and stumble across quite a few 50% het this and 50% het that. Now I do know what double morphs are but when people say 50% this and that for example 50% het pied and 50% het Lav albino is it like saying well it's poss 50% het this and that but were not sure?

Daniel

I just don't and it and to tell everyone the truth I don't know if my post makes sense?

if you take albino x normal you will end up with all 100% hets cuz the albino can only pass on the albino gene. so they have 1 albino gene and 1 normal gene. if you take one of the 100% hets and breed it to a normal you end up with 50% hets cuz now those hets cuz they could of passed on the albino gene or the normal gene. so all the babiies have a 50% of getting the albino gene.

when you see the double hets its basicly the same thing but they either had 1 parent that was a 100% double recessive or 2 parents 100% hets one of each of the 2 morphs. that the snakes you saw were 50% het for.

hope i said that right and didnt confuse you worse. if i did im sorry

[B@LLZ4LIFE]

So if i were to breed two 50% hets say for piebald what would the outcome be would i get my piebald

[RebelYell83]

if BOTH prove out as hets,then you should get one pied,but keep in mind,even breeding pied to het can produce all hets,so one breeding dont always prove it out,seen in a bhb vid,hes seen it take 40 eggs to get the het to het pairing to produce out.