I was wondering what some of ya'll take is on producing double hets. I know the best route to go would be to breed two homozygous animals together and produce all 100% DHs....but if all you have is hets and no homozygous animals and your long term goal is to produce a double homozygous ball python...

....Is it just a waste of time to breed two different hets together to produce babies that are 25% possible of being DH (50% poss. het for each trait)?

...Would it be better to try to produce at least one homozygous ball python first... then breed a homo. of one trait to the a het of the other? or wait until you have two different trait homozygous ball pythons to breed together?

....so basically, what I am asking is....if your final goal was to produce a double homozygous ball python...you had no ball pythons and all you had money for was to purchase hets....how would you go about reaching your final goal???