Out of curiosity, how do you guarantee the spots are not scars? In your other post here
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...threadid=46622 you state this:
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I just recenly bought a female Col. boa with three white blotches on her.
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Since you only got her recently, did you also get pictures of her as a neonate possessing these marks? That would be the determining factor really.
In all honesty it does look exactly like healed burns. I've seen it myself and the marks are identical, a white patch with a discolored ring around it. A slight burn doesn't do it, but a deep burn does. The white spot appears within 1-2 sheds after the burn occurs, in the spot where the scales were seriously damaged.
I'd like to see the same snake after half a dozen sheds.
As far as being het for pied, those marks do not suggest that at all. A snake that is het for anything looks completely normal, that's the nature of it, the carrier of a recessive gene cannot also display that gene without being homozygous.
That being the case, since it is displaying white spots, it's either pied or it's not, het is not an option.
Regardless, it is my opinion that that snake was injured at some point, and those marks are of no genetic significance.