"I agreed with you about the pastels."

What part are you agreeing with? I said your animal is a pastel., but you say it hasnt benefitted from selective breeding. It has benefitted from Pastelism, regardless if it has been line bred for 15 years or 1, it is a pastel, and is very full of color. If you take that and produce albinos with it, even with the kahlstrain, it is going to make pastel albinos, not just run of the mill normal albinos.

"Perphaps the "true" definition from the person that started them years ago is that the black is washed out but I think when most people are looking for a pastel, they are looking for some color, not just a clean normal"

You can interpret it as you want, but the bottom line is that PASTEL HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COLOR OR THE LACK OF, It only makes it easier to see the color! With that being said, it is only natural for people to selectively breed the best Colored Pastels in order to make them more colorful.

"My question was do you think the fact that a pastel is clean will add color to an albino or the fact that they have pinks and reds throughout the body?"

The best colored normal can produce just as nice if not better albinos than a good pastel as long as the color is there, but if it is a big black animal, it would be hard to tell without breeding it because the black masks the color, and until the black is taken away, the color wouldnt be seen.

That also is explained in the quote you dont understand, who was it that said that you ask? It was Jeff Ronne and it can be found on his sticky thread in his forums covering the history of Pastels and hypos.

could you point me to the topic you got the quote of me out of?

"So does a normal salmon sibling have added color or not?"

No, hypos dont add color. Color adds color.

"What other sharp strain animals do you have besides the pair you are selling and the 66% poss het sharp sunglow on your site"

I have a few.

"Are you expecting any sharp animals this upcoming season?"

I bred a male 100% het sharp to a nice female that has thrown some nice pastels for me the last two seasons. It should give me a nice litter of 50% hets. Amazing how few are willing to do breedings like that to get outcrossed blood :/

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