Quote Originally Posted by sk8er4life
...was selling 50% het albino male for $30 and i was thinkin thats cheaper than some plain out normals!
That's because a 50% POSSIBLE het for albino ball python literally means you have a 50% chance that the snake in question is in fact a 100% HET albino. It's kind of hard to grasp, but hopefully that makes sense. In other words, there is no such thing as a 50% het albino. The snake either carries the gene for albino (and is 100% het) or it does not (0%). The 50% and 66% het comes in when you breed a 100% het animal to a normal het for nothing animal. The results will include NO visual albinos. All of the offspring will appear normal, but statistically 50% or 66% (depending on the breeding) of the offspring WILL BE 100% het. Since heterozygous animals and normal animals look the same, they are marked either 50% or 66% possible het. You will not know exactly which of the animals are hets until you breed them and prove them out by producing the morph. This also means that there is a 50% chance that the animal is completely normal, and will never carry the gene to produce the trait (whether it be albino, pied, etc). I could go on and on, but hopefully that helps.

Jennifer