This "marker" is in no way an every time occurence at all. IF it has one of the "white scale" markers on it's body, you can be 99% assured it's het albino.
For example- In my recent litter from a Kahl Albino x Het Albino, all the normal lookers are 100% Het Albino, BUT of the 8 100% Hets only 6 of them have the marker. Does this mean the other two are some how NOT Het for albino? No, they are as much a het as the others. The forehead "white dot" is just something I've noticed comes up a lot in a Kahl x Het breeding. I didn't mean to confuse anyone at all. In the previous thread where this discussion started, I was just stating what I've noticed.
Now, for the Het x Het breedings. It has been a very long practice and proved theory that snakes with the random "white scales" on the body have a very good chance of being actual hets. This is not to say that the ones without the white marker are not hets, but the chances are more like 99% instead of 66% that they are indeed hets. It's just a theory that has worked for MANY breeders, including myself.
Jeff Ronne's theory- The "glowing eye" theory. He thinks that the hets are the ones with the eyeball that looks like it has a flashlight behind it shining out. I have neither proved this theory nor disproved it. It does however work very well for him. In a het x het breeding, it is true that the actual hets seem to "pop" out of the litter...meaning, they do stand out from the crowd when you're looking at the WHOLE litter. I've heard this is true with Het x Het sharps, Het x Het BW Caramels, Het x Het Leopards, and Het x Het Bloods.
I hope I cleared this up a little...and I really hope I didn't confuse anyone anymore, lol.
Scott---
I didn't notice any white scales on your anery, but anery's are hard to do this with because they are black and white. Not to mention she's extremely pale even for an anery.
Good luck looking though! lol
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