New to the breeding side of things

First of all, welcome to the community! This is a great place to learn and I hope you stick around.
Some morphs are recessive and some are dominant. All morphs have 2 different visual outcomes, there are 2 alleles and if the morph occurs on 1 it is different than if it occurs on 2. The recessive morphs need 2 copies to be visual, if they have 1 copy they don’t show any visual effects (called hets, stands for heterozygous) but if paired to a 1 copy snake or 2 copy snake can produce 2 copy snakes of that morph (to understand inheritance research punnett squares). Dominant morphs also have 0, 1, or 2 copies of the morph. LIke recessive if they don’t have a copy they don’t show the effect. If it has 1 copy it is visual and you can see the effects. 2 copies and it usually (most morphs do) has a different visual effect than the one copy and can produce one copy (visual) snakes in a pairing. Piebald is a recessive morph and will produce het piebalds in the first generation, those won’t have any visual effects but if paired to a 1 or 2 copy snake can produce piebalds. Banana is dominant and if paired to a normal (no morphs) will produce bananas. Since it is a 1 to 0 copy pairing (punnett squares help here) 50% of the offspring will have banana (theoretically, it’s a chance and could produce more or less).

Research on the marketplace to understand how hets, 1-copies (won’t have het or super listed), and supers work. Run pairings through the calculator to understand how recessive and dominant traits are inherited. To really help understand inheritance you can draw punnett squares on a piece of paper and try pairings.
It sounds a bit complicated but once you learn how it works (which is quite simple once you understand terms, definitions, and mendelian inheritance) it seems very easy to do and breeding can be very enjoyable.

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