It's all down to how markers are interpretted really like bob said i've not seen any 100% hets without the marker but you can clal it a marker there because you know they've come from breeding with the pied gene but just finding a normal doesn't mean it'll still carry that even though i've seen many many dreamers with wc's with it that live in hope same with faded triangle yep common in the vpi line but others with it, could mean nothing. I think thats the one big problem with 'markers' is that they missell a lot i have 4 females here with the het pied marker all are CF but im 99.9% sure NONE of them will ever throw a pied but i also have a 66% het pied male with belly markers who hopefully WILL throw the pieds but still whats to stop people lying when they sell snakes nowadays i could (not that i ever would) put my females up as 100% het pieds and there'd always be some muppet willing to pay because of what they've read but are in such a hurry they don't check the background. I dunno though it's all a mix and match of things but personally i believe in the markers and if buying 66% het pied would take the ones with markers over those without still then maybe some without just to see which ones proved out and which ones didn't.
Rach
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