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.

in your example - whilst your way of expressing may make sense to you and i, for someone new to genetics you may as well use chinese characters. so instead of going and explaining it as you have i feel it alot easier and simpler to understand if you explain it as i did, 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.

its differant methods of explaining, but i think for someone that isnt clued up with genetics my way offers an adequate explanation. you dont teach algebra to 4 year olds in maths classes