Quote Originally Posted by daniel1983
....Is it just a waste of time to breed two different hets together to produce babies that are 25% possible of being DH (50% poss. het for each trait)?
Lots of people will tell you it is a waste of time but I don't think it is. If you don't have the money to pay for the homozygous morphs necessary to create true double hets, then you could take the long road.
You could breed two hets to produce possible double hets. I would hold back the females and repeat this type of breeding to accrue a significant group of females. Do the hard work and get them up to size.
At this point, assuming prices have dropped in the years it took you to raise the females and assuming you can afford the snakes, you can do a few things: you can acquire a true double het male, you can acquire the homozygous morphs, or you can acquire the double homozygous morph. Use these animals to breed to your possible double het females.......your odds of producing the designer morph you are after will increase.....if you had a bunch of possible double hets, I bet one or more will prove out.
If, after raising the possible double het females, you don't have the coin for the aformentioned options, you can breed the het males or a hold back possible double het male to the females......you are bound to produce some kind of morph!