Quote Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser View Post
Saying het toffee/albino, the "/" means "or" for most other things, I mean if i say im looking for a lesser het albino/clown/hypo, you know exactly what im looking for, not a triple het. Only time I see it used as "and" is when people say their lesser/mojave BEL. but the BEL is always at the end. Also you know it's not het for both toffee and albino, because that would be a toffino.

outside of the snake world tho, "/" is used as "or" also. I talked to him/her and he/she said something.

so with that you could simply call the poss hets 50% het albino/toffee.

Without delving too deeply into the grammatical implications of the slash symbol (I am pretty sure that "/" can be used to indicate and as well as "or," and its meaning will depend on context) ...

I think the statement "100% het for albino/toffee" may be too confusing for those who are still struggling with the genetics of it.

I understand what you mean ("definitely het for either albino or toffee with a 50/50 chance of either"), but I think that the phrase "100% het albino/toffee" is too easy to perceive as meaning "het for a blend of toffee and albino" or "100% double het for albino/toffee." I have already read both misconceptions a few times.

Also, I realize that in the snake world the "/" can mean "or" or "and" (for example, ads that say things like "Male calico/pinstripe/fires" that are advertising male calicos, male pinstripes and male fires, not male calico-pinstripe-fires), but I usually think of it as meaning that the one snake carries the genes involved - for example, the phrase "het albino/pieds" usually means that all of the snakes are het for albino and pied, not albino or pied.

I don't know of any precedent in other species for this situation ... Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't polyallelic recessive loci in other species, just that I don't know of ANY other animal breeders that are as obsessed with color as we are!