Genetics control most everything so having no idea what goes into making the best super pastel I would assume genetics are the top candidate.

However, with genetic stripe I'm not so sure. A guy near me has a nice pair of genetic stripes. The first year he bred them all the babies had a lot of side pattern. You could tell they weren’t normals but they didn't look like text book genetic stripes either. The next clutch from the SAME pair every baby was much better striped than the best one from the first clutch. What changed? It couldn't have been the genetics. I thought maybe incubation temp but I've seen a post from a breeder who reports to have experimented with a range of genetic stripe incubation temps and not seen temps effect the stripe quality. Sure it could have just been luck but the two clutches where soo different I have to believe there is some sort of environmental or conditioning variable; I just don't know what it could be.

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