im slightly confused with hets

[sunshinegeckos]

I understand hets for the most part but when it says its 66% het for something or 70% het for something what does that actually mean?

 

[Wild West Reptile]

That's just the percentage of the CHANCE that they are het for whatever it is. It's like if you bred a het to a het and it didn't come out for what you where doing....then the percents for those offspring kick in. It's way more involved than that, depends on the morph, but yeah.....it's kind of a headache!:wall:

 

[ElapidSVT]

yeah, say you bred two animals that were het for albino:

you'll get 25% albinos, 50% hets and 25% normals
since the hets look identical to normals, you know that 2/3 will be hets statistically so there's a 66% chance that any particular normal looking animal from that pairing is het for albino.

 

[sunshinegeckos]

ok thanks that does make sense now!

 

[notacoshells]

well het means that it carries the traits of the parent that has recessive genes but doesn't show it. 66% het means that there is a 66% chance that it carries the recessive genes.

 

[animeavatar]

ElapidSVT explained hets to me once and that night I dreamed I hatched a het!!! LOL and I didn't have an incubator( it was on the floor of my room) and for some reason it was het snow and I was like ... because the pair didn't have any snow but when I think of it right now I realize one of the pair might have snow. In disguise. I don't even know if I understand het.