Dave,

I answered this above, but Pastel is a polygenic trait...where you take two boas that are lacking black breed and take the best babies that are lacking black and breed them...to create boas with even less black....

Now you can find boas within this spectrum of ones lacking black...some have colors and some are void of color...just remember pastel does not mean color...it means lacking black...that is all.

There are many grades of pastels on the market...I believe that the pastel trait will compliment any line...they sort of clean them up.

Pastel traits can also be un-done by breeding to animals with more black...

I like to think of it as a string with many beads on it...and the pastel trait is like a bead...the more times you breed it toward that desired trait the more pastel beads you have on the string...which makes the pastel trait show up more radically in some animals.

Hope this helps , Andy Federico
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