Female Fire, $$ question.

[mainbutter]

well for one thing.. there is no such thing as het lucy....

fire, russo, mojo, lesser/butter/... they aren't het for BEL's

they just produce them.. its their super.. dont listen to someone say oh they are het for ivory..
yellowbelly x yellowbelly = super yellowbellies (ivory) and yellowbelly's
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so a fire is not het for BEL's
its just a product of selective breeding. no het required like pieds...

Please don't take offense at this, but..

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. What you said is the EXACT opposite of 'correct'.. lol.

Heterozygous does NOT mean 'looks normal but carries a recessive trait'.

A diploid organism is heterzygous at a locus if it carries only one copy of a particular allele.. in this case, the fire is simply the heterozygous expression of the allele that causes black-eyed leucies in the homozygous expression of the trait.

So yes, patels are hets. Super pastels are homozygotes. Yellowbellies are heterozygotes. Ivories are homozygotes.