awesome deal!!!

[andyjs]

i have a question about like herp terms i see it alot and it is kinda a noob question but what do breeders mean when they say het? (e.g. het for albino hognose) is it like an acronym or abbreviation like i know amel is amelanistic so is het lik hypoamelanistic?

"het" means heterozygous, meaning the animal carries one recessive gene for a trait. Let's use albinism as an example. The animal has to have both genes for albinism to appear albino (we'll call it "aa"). A het would be "Aa" meaning it has the recessive albino gene, but the dominant gene overpowers it. "AA" would then have both normal genes. If you breed two hets, you should end up with approximately 25% normal "AA", 50% hets "Aa", and 25% that display the trait "aa" (obviously the actual reproduction doesn't follow this pattern exactly though). I don't know if you needed that much info, but I figured I'd give it just in case.

 

[kafiltafiisch]

"het" means heterozygous, meaning the animal carries one recessive gene for a trait. Let's use albinism as an example. The animal has to have both genes for albinism to appear albino (we'll call it "aa"). A het would be "Aa" meaning it has the recessive albino gene, but the dominant gene overpowers it. "AA" would then have both normal genes. If you breed two hets, you should end up with approximately 25% normal "AA", 50% hets "Aa", and 25% that display the trait "aa" (obviously the actual reproduction doesn't follow this pattern exactly though). I don't know if you needed that much info, but I figured I'd give it just in case.

oh i gotcha i know heterozygous i learned it from my teacher back in 7th grade when we did punnet squares that guy was a real monster fish keeper he had a 70 gal reef tank in his room along with 2 other small ones

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I'm love'n those hognoses, nice choice!