IF they turn out to be compatible it makes both mutations much more interesting to me but I'm weird that way. Probably will never get a pair of lavender retics due to their size but some day in the long off future (i.e. when I can afford them) would love to have a pair of the ball python lavender\\candy combo IF it's a nice visual and can produce a smorgasbord of only visual lavender, combo, and candy.

Hard to say what is the effect on price IF this turns out to be a true allele situation. The nature of alleles is that they are DIFFERENT versions (in this case different mutant versions) of the SAME gene. Because there is no room for a normal version of the common gene when you breed one of the homozygous mutant versions to the other homozygous mutant version you don't expect normal looking double hets but some sort of combo mutant type. An example with some track record would be lesser and mojave except that being co-dominant you can see the hets. But if you breed homozygous lesser to homozygous mojave you get all white snakes. How much did less expensive mojave females effect the price of lessers or was it all just the inevitable drop in price of an expensive and highly desirable morph with lots of motivation for production? Mojave and lesser are not interchangeable but despite very different starting prices have come closer together, just not sure about all the reasons. Time might be the biggest factor and if so one could expect the low price equalization to be even further off for a recessive mutant allele pair. Mojave may actually be getting a boost to help close the gap recently from combos like mystic potion. Nice that we have both mojave and lesser for different tastes. If candy is consistently more outrageous than even lavender then I’m sure it will be reflected in the relative prices for a long time regardless of compatibility.