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Originally posted by Esnake
For a snake to be consider pie-bald, it must have 10% or more of the markings. My snake has about 2% of the markings. This would not be considered to be a pie-bald or a heterozygote for pie-blad.
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Where exactly is this written? There's no minimum requirement of white to determine if an animal is pied. It either has the gene or it doesn't, there's no gray area. If it is homozygous for the pied gene then it's pied regardless of the degree the gene is expressed. It's the genetic condition that determines it, not the phenotype.
There have been a few pied balls hatch with no white at all on the lateral or dorsal surface, merely a white belly and the characteristic dorsal double striped pattern. These snakes were pied regardless and carried just as much chance of producing a 90% white snake as any other pied.
Now you say it's neither pied or het for pied, but in the other thread you started here
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...threadid=46622
you titled the thread "Possible Het for pied Boa".
The determining factor remains unanswered. Was this snake born with those white spots? Pieds don't happen spontaneously.