perhaps when you breed a heterozygous pastel (Aa)to another heterozygous pastel (Aa)and the resulting het pastels look better than the typical het pastel is because of the normal gene carried by both parents are better than the typical normal. What I'm saying is this. Het Pastel male was hatched from a truly stunning high yellow normal that was bred to a pastel. He is then bred to het pastel female that was hatched from a completely average looking normal female. Of this breeding you get 8 eggs. 2 of which are super(AA) pastels. Both look very similar. of the other 6 eggs you get 4 pastels (Aa) and 2 normals (aa). 2 of the pastels look like "screamers" the other 2 are just nice pastels. Why isn't it possible to say that the normal code in their genetic makeup (_a) was inherited from the grandmother's nice coloration. Granted the trait isn't passed on like any simple recessive or co-dom trait but it could be passed on through very selective line breeding. We see this in alot of other snake breeds such as the chondro's where the pedigree of the snake determines the price. Perhaps these traits that don't prove out on the first or second line breeding are still worth breeding into our morphs as when they do show up, they "POP". Almost everyone that has bred for a few years has a male or female that has a look that they want but can't copy exactly but who's offspring look nicer than "normal". I know I do and plan on breeding them into my morphs to see if they come out looking nicer.

Josh Hutto

JKReptiles
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2.3 het pied (RDR, alan bosch x 2, BHB x 2)

0.1 High Contrast Albino (Gulf Coast)

1.1 het albino (ben siegel, Gulf Coast)

1.2 het citrus ghost(Gulf Coast line)

1.0 citrus ghost (Gulf Coast line)

0.1 graz pastel female

1.6 05 normal bp's

0.6 04 normal bp's

2.5 adult normal bp's (some need breeding to see if norm)

4 various corns

0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (alan bosch)

1.0 american pit bull terrior

1.1 taco dogs (ankle biters)

1.0 grey cat

1.1 bearded dragons



a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrior as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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