Quote Originally Posted by Freakie_frog View Post
I do know that there are breeders who over the years have seen slight differences in "Normal" het babies for different morph, Clown, Pied, and even hypo come to mind..now each breeder looks for something different and all will tell you it can be unreliable but I can tell you 3 people I know personally that have pick out poss hets and proven them not once but several times..

The breeder I get most of my snakes from mentioned that his hypo's do have a marker, but I forget what it was (I'll have to give him a call). At the last show he pointed out all of his hets for sale...they were axanthics, lavenders, ghosts, and piebalds and they were labled as possible het. Out of those he went though every one and pointed out whether or not they actually carried the genes (he even did this with several double hets). Granted this was an educated guess, but he said he has proven them out based on these markings on a regular basis.

I'm sure this is also different with every line of an animal, but I am a strong believer in markers...as long as the animal in question is from a known line of a given morph (not just a random animal in a pet store). I also understand that many hets have no markers...as I have seen plenty of het. pieds with no visual markers.

Just my 2 cents.