Personally, I say forget the "lines" and various names attached to all of the pastels you see. Very few lines are actually different and some people will market a bright yellow baby "regular" pastel as a "Lemon" or "Blonde".



Don't get me wrong... some of the lines out there actually do vary from the "traditional" pastel, but you have to know what to look for.



Having said all of that, you still have to remember that no matter which line of pastels you end up purchasing they ALL can produce a wide range of offspring. All lines are capable of producing both ugly and jaw dropping gorgeous pastels.



You will have to look at the individual pastel you are thinking of purchasing to be able to determine what it will look like as an adult. It's parents may look one way, but the actual snake you are thinking of buying will give you many more clues to it's future coloration.



Look for clean, bright yellow babies. Most pastels will fade with age (all balls do...very few morphs will brighten with age). Anywhere on a baby pastel that is orange will one day become light brown. Yellow will fade, but it won't brown out. By "clean" looking I mean an animal with little to no orange speckling and a bold distinct pattern. The black can be faded or blushed out (the blushing will increase in the black areas with age) but the edge of the black parts of the pattern should be distinct from the yellow portions.



If you look for these traits in a baby pastel you will be happy with the way it looks as an adult. Just remember: no matter what the seller tries to tell you - orange babies DO NOT "get better with age".



As far as which line makes a better Super Pastel or Bumblebee... it really depends on what traits you prefer in a Super Pastel or a Bumblebee. Some people like really faded, blushed-out looking Super Pastels, other people want Supers that are almost highlighter yellow. Ask people to post comparison pics of their Supers (along with the animals that produced them) and Bumblebees and you will get an idea as to their variability. NERD would be good to ask about this since they work with several lines of pastel and could walk you through some the ins and outs of each.

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