Pastel referes to simply a reduction in black pigment. This reduction is most noticible at the rear of the animal where the saddles turn into tail blotches. A normal animal will have significant black around this area and a Pastel will have a graet reduction or possibly very little.



Pastel as a trait is not passed by one gene, it is pollygenic which means that multiple genes determine the outcome. This also means that you can take two normal snakes with a reduction in black pigment and create pastel offspring. Many Pastel lines have been refined over years of breeding in order to create the animals with extreme black pigment reduction.
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- Jason F.

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• pastel boas - dumje, Wed Sep 6 11:52:08 2006
• RE: pastel boas - jayf, Wed Sep 6 17:19:30 2006
• RE: pastel boas - dumje, Thu Sep 7 16:42:43 2006
• RE: pastel boas - fourquet, Tue Sep 26 08:50:01 2006
• No, a pastel is a lot more than that! - slithering_serpents, Fri Sep 22 11:53:08 2006