want to know what the acronyms are?

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by carpy

firstly my post was a clear oversimplification, and to describe het as having an invisible gene is a good simple way of describing such an animal in the hobby.

And the explanation is as untrue as saying that snakes spit eggs out of their mouth to give birth (yes, I have a family member who misunderstood what she was looking at when she saw a photo of an egg-eating snake.)

Het does not and has never meant "has an invisible gene". That's how you get unfortunate people buying "het pastel" or "het spider" royals that turn out to be completely normal - because they believe "het" means "invisible". Corn snakes have codominant traits as well as recessive ones, so trying to explain that "het means invisible in corns" doesn't work in a practical sense either. Someone who buys a "het stripe, het motley" corn that looks normal because they think hets are invisible is getting cheated just as certainly as someone who buys a "het spider" royal that looks normal.

There's a difference between simplifying things to make them easier for a newbie to understand... and explaining them in a way that is functionally inaccurate and will lead to much greater misunderstandings.

in which case clearly the phenotype of the individual is of course Coral snow, whilst the heterozygous aspect means there is a single gene that is unable to express its phenotype, therefore resulting in a het bloodred coral snow.

Technically speaking, Diffusion (bloodred) behaves like a variable-expression codominant trait (and THAT is overcomplicating things for a beginner!) D is diffused - and d is "not diffused". The phenotype of a het diffused animal is visually different to an animal who is homozygous diffused DD OR a non-carrier dd.

you dont teach algebra to 4 year olds in maths classes

And you don't teach them that 2 + 2 = 5 either in the hopes they'll understand that it's really 4 someday but 5 is somehow "easier" to understand now.

[carpy]

i guess its differing opinions then. the way i explained it was in my opinion a simple way of getting across het in the way it is come across. i think that is a valid and clear way of explaining it, when yours is to most people not understandable.

such is life, people can read and make up their own minds. when they get to the stage that you are pointing out they wont be needing to ask what het is anyhow as they will msot likely have a far greater knowledge

[Dextersdad]

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Great underhand tactics.

Idiots.

[Alex27]

you fail big time

[Dextersdad]

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I KNow what S.P.A.M means

[Dextersdad]

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Thank GOD we can all spell SPAM by now

[Dextersdad]

I must apoligise for the SPAM in the post above this one. I am doing my level best to fight it (With my limited tools). I wouldn't go near them with a barge pole considering the tactics they are using.

[Dextersdad]

I must apoligise for the SPAM in the post above this one. I am doing my level best to fight it (With my limited tools). I wouldn't go near them with a barge pole considering the tactics they are using.

[Dextersdad]

I Just want to clear up something. My previous post was in referance to a spmmer on here late one night. I was running interferance with the chap but later they were banne and all their posts removed. Mine stayed so it looks as though I was ranting for no good reason

[SW-morelia]

LMAO.... You done this the other night on snakewisperas , carpet thread..... It looked like you went mad on there as well......
Dexters dad ain't just a dad... he's top spam ghost hunter as well...... Nice one mate.... LOL