Crossing pieds with other morphs

[Pythonfriend]

ball pythons can have up to two copies maximum of each gene.

piebald is recessive. with recessives, you actually need two copys to get a visual piebald. if there is only one, its a normal-looking het.

pastel is codom. here, if you have one copy, its called pastel, and if you have two copies, its called super pastel.

so to make a pastel pied from scratch, you breed piebald to pastel, and you get: half of them will be het pieds, and half will be pastel + het pied.

then you breed piebald to pastel het piebald and one quarter will be pastel pieds.

when you breed piebald to piebald, you get only piebalds. so you can breed a pastel pied to a calico pied and you will get normal piebalds, pastel piebalds, calico piebalds, and pastel calico piebalds.

you should play around with genetic calculators, and read up what a punnett square is and how it works. basically you need to learn the differences between dominant, codominant/incomplete dominant, and recessive. and then it all gets very easy.

EDIT: compared to dominant/codominant, you could say that with recessives, it takes one extra generation to combine genes, and your chances are lower. basically you need to first get your dominant/codominant genes combined with visual piebald. and then you can breed visual piebalds with extra genes to each other. so when you get a new and fancy gene, first you need to produce "new gene + het piebald", and then you can produce "new gene + piebald".