Quote Originally Posted by paulh View Post
I agree that it's the 50:50 answer. But you hit one of my pet peeves with the "only recessive traits will give hets". There are lots of het lessers. A het lesser has a gene pair made up of a lesser gene and a normal gene. They are known as lessers in the trade and do not look normal. The belief that a heterozygous snake looks normal is a holdover from the days when the only mutant genes in reptiles were recessive mutants. The lesser mutant gene is not a recessive mutant because the heterozygous snakes do not look normal.
Okay, I may be confused, but I may not. So you're saying that there are true lessers, but there are also het lessers that look like lessers. So how do you know which one you've gotten, other than years of breeding or genetic testing?