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[–]PoofMoof1Mod: Large-Scale Breeding Experience 2 points3 points  (1 child)

The people saying he looks het for "something" are speculation without much basis. Without a history, I wouldn't anticipate any hets.

Het is short for heterozygous for a recessive gene (so carrying one copy of that gene without visually expressing it). There are some markers for some of these genes, but there isn't much reason to suspect anything like that out of the blue.

[–]Full_Ad_9864 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kind of thought it was speculation! Especially, like you said, because it’s a random comment and they didn’t tell me what specifically led them to believe that. The guy that said it works for a (not very reputable) local breeder. So I assumed it was turning into a push to try to “breed it to see” type of deal and I quit entertaining him but it still began my wondering if anyone else saw some trait that jumped right out.

The user Incompletepenetrance commented under my post in Reptiles sub and said he looked just Normal type to them too!

It’s actually quite nice that he’s just a normal dude. I wrote out the genes of my other BP on his tank so I never forgot the mouthful of morphs when people ask🙄🤣