Is This Pic A Het Pied?

[Simpson Balls]

Do you know if he will still be around in 3 years?

Guarantee is only as good as the seller is, if he is established in the business someone must know him, does he have a name, a website, can he provide you with picture of the sire?

When I do not know about someone I ask around and chances are people I know will know, if not than I'll pass.

This guy is well known in my area his website I think is called Scales To Tails. The guys name is Shaun. All I wanted to know is if it looked like a het pied not to start a thread about everyone asking me if I trust the guy. By the way! I was going to to a deal with him a couple months ago but the guy offer double the price for the snake so I could not get it!

Daniel

[JLC]

This guy is well known in my area his website I think is called Scales To Tails. The guys name is Shaun. All I wanted to know is if it looked like a het pied not to start a thread about everyone asking me if I trust the guy. By the way! I was going to to a deal with him a couple months ago but the guy offer double the price for the snake so I could not get it!

Daniel

No one can say for sure by looking at the picture, but the "markers" appear to be there. There's just no guarantee based on markers alone. If you like the guy and feel you can trust him, then go for it.

[snakecharmer3638]

This guy is well known in my area his website I think is called Scales To Tails. The guys name is Shaun. All I wanted to know is if it looked like a het pied not to start a thread about everyone asking me if I trust the guy. By the way! I was going to to a deal with him a couple months ago but the guy offer double the price for the snake so I could not get it!

Daniel

And Heather gave you the answer to your question in the first post. Your the one that brought up the guarantee. Like I said before great guarantee, for him. A better guarantee for you would be if she lays and does not produce pieds, he gives you a pied.

[CoolioTiffany]

You cannot tell if a snake is a het. If the breeder you got it from produced that het pied, he/she should know and tell you that it is. If the breeder did not produce the snake, and says it's a het pied, the only way to tell if it's a het pied is if you do this:
1) Breed the snake with another het pied. See if the hatchlings are pieds too, and if not, your snake is not a het pied. Make sure the snake you breed it with is a het pied, or else your hatchlings will all look like normal BPs.
2) Breed the snake with a normal. After you have the hatchlings, raise one of them (of the opposite sex) and breed it back to yours. Though, you may not know which are hets and which are normals in your clutch because there is no way to tell unless all babies are bred to the parents or each other.
3) Breed the snake with a pied. If your babies come out looking like all normals, your snake is not a het. Though, your clutch would be het for pieds.

[Watever]

Het pied markers, might be true, but there is also het pied that don't have those markers and normals who have them. So the only way is to trust the breeder.

I sent you a Private Message about it.

But for everyone here, ScaleToTails (the breeder of that het pied, as it's suppose) have been in the business for some time. May be not with Ball but with other snake at least.

Good Luck !

[Patrick Long]

Looks SKINNY

[gant77]

People are just looking out for you and I hope you appreciate that. No one wants to see any one get taken and that's just what people here are trying to help you avoid. No need to take offense to it!

[tonkatoyman]

If you ask me that sounds like a pretty good guarantee.... FOR HIM! He sells you the snake and you feed it for a couple of years and then when you get no pied, he buys back a female ready to breed.

Yeah At baby ball prices, not grown adult prices. Be careful Daniel

[lillyorchid]

Erm... this just sounds fishy... I'd look else where!

A reputable breeder isn't going to be selling any animals on a "craigslist" type of site.

Pat is right, that snake is very skinny!

[CoolioTiffany]

I didn't look at the picture at first.. but since I have now that snake does look skinny..