I would go with a pastel personally (I have 4) for a few reasons; they seem to hold the key to a lot of new morphs. They are 1/3 the price of a Mojave, and in my opinion, much more beautiful. Also, to clear up a previous post, the Mojave is also co-dominant, which means when you breed a pastel OR a mojave to a normal, half of your clutch will be the visible morph, no hets here. Also, your question regarding what to look for in a pastel, I'm assuming you mean how to tell a pastel apart from a high yellow jungle, which, incidentally, MANY so-called "breeders" are selling on KS classifieds as jungle pastels. There will be no black dots or lines on the labial (underbelly) scales of a jungle pastel, there will be with a jungle, or a pastel, or a high yellow...etc. The head of a jungle pastel will also have purple-ish look to it. Trust me, you'll know when you see it. Lastly, the eyes of a jungle pastel are silvery, and slotted vertically. You can get in ground-floor with a good 1.2 pastels, for the same price as one mojave, so you would be producing years earlier, and try for a super-pastel.

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