I was catching up on some YouTube videos last night and saw Always Evolving Pythons cutting a clutch of quad hets (sunset/clown/lavender/pied). They definitely seemed like some unusually bright “normals”!
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I’ll take better pictures after they shed out, but here are the females from a double het pos het clown clutch. Naturally all the pastels are male lol. I’ll make my finally judgement when they shed out, but I’ll probably be keeping one of the females hoping she’s a triple het. See the color shift one of them has? Not that they gave me a good look all balled up, but honestly their patterns weren’t all that different from what I could see, so I’m most likely just keeping her based off color alone.
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I have seen several breeders talking about markers on het clowns. That their colors are brighter and more vibrant like I’ve read in other posts above. I’ve also seen videos and pictures of het clowns having a black line on their tail below the vent…
I have 4 het clowns in my collection.
A male and female Pastel het clown. The female is brighter than the male and doesn’t have a black line below her vent. The male however does posess the black line.
Nothing is absolute or backed by science. The only way to know for sure is to prove them out.
Female
Male
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So I’m all for recessives have no het influence and if there’s any het influence, it’s inc-dom (that’s why I believe pied is inc-dom). Clown, I was convinced it was recessive at first and now I’m not so sure. Whenever I scroll through Instagram now, every time I see a het clown my mind immediately jumps to clown, even before I can scroll far enough to see het clown. It’s happening so consistently too.
The two main phenotypes I tend to see are a reduced pattern that’s thicker at the spine, similar to clown. The other one is the same but instead, the dorsal pattern is pushed out and there’s a very clear dorsal stripe. Both are really subtle but it seems to be fairly consistent, though I actually see it better in combos. I don’t even bother with the brightness stuff. And there’s more to het pied than just tracks
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