Reptile Gumbo had one with Her as well a few months back:
And THP recently had Ben Morrill on as well discussing his lab participating in a similar project:
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Hey - O!! Thanks for the shout out @eaglereptiles 
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Exciting times with the teams identifying morph mutations and the potential testing getting cheaper.
I’ve long been in the minority that I like possible hets. Years ago I swore some people hated them so much it was better not to even mention. Like they would pay more for an albino than an albino possible het axanthic because they didn’t want to risk being disappointed by a possible het.
I’ve proven many possible hets and they allowed me to start working towards a project long before I could have bought a 100% het. For example, I bought a possible het monsoon male I think looks likely to be a het while 100% het monsoons are still out of my reach.
But even though my days of buying a new morph lotto ticket may be drawing to a close I’m very excited about testing. Right now I’m spending years (and $ on feeders and many hours cleaning) growing up possible multi recessive het females and I would love to be able to narrow down a to fewer animals to work on and sell the others as normals or confirmed lesser order het combos. Would also free up space for more projects.
Also, I think available testing will encourage outbreeding. Rather than inbreeding to produce two different double homozygous animals to breed together to produce 100% quad hets you could just breed two different double hets together and test to find any 1 in 16 quad hets. With more people able to make and identify a specific quad het combo hopefully breeders can find each other and exchange unrelated pairs.
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I am new to ball pythons and have got my first male. I got him from a very reputable feeddepot that also sells a nice variety of reptiles. They had bought the snake as a forfeit owner didn’t want anymore. He is supposed to be a fire pied but the guy at the shop who breeds BPs seems to think he may be more important genes like possibly an OD fired pied. Is that type of testing for genes available?
We’re a good ways away from there being tests for all the Incomplete Dominant genes. A good number of the recessives have been located and most of the Yellow Belly complex has been as well. Eventually there will be more complete testing available through Rare Genetics Inc. but right now it’s somewhat limited.
For something that simple, try posting some photos for the community to ID we should be able to tell you what you’ve got going on in that combo.
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Congrats on the official release, could a updated list of morphs needed be put up? I would love to try and contribute, also, originally i believe single genes were wanted, but since some of them are now figured out, if we have a desired gene that also has a gene already IDed, would that be OK, since the extra gene wont be mistaken for the desired one?
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