I agree that many hets seem to look different but many others don't. Maybe it has something to do with the normals used in prior breedings? I used to keep unusual normals just because, maybe I would produce something neat, etc. I would assume others have done the same. If these normals were used to produce hets maybe that would explain future "markers"??

In 2008 I produced four clutches from lav albino x het. All the hets in these clutches were very nice and bright gold color. I then had two cluches from het lav x normal still incubating and figured I would be able to just pick out the nice gold ones. All the babies from both clutches looked totally normal??