I was also confused when I saw Pete using the term pastel on his website for corals ... coral being a high color albino ... pastels being a low black normal (pastel bloodlines selectively bred for color however).

Corals were derived through breeding one of the patriarch albinos to many normals .. one of the hets from that bunch threw the corals. They were not derived through reducing black (revealing color) and selectively breeding towards color in normals (like pastels were).

I personally was under the impression that that particular bloodline is the coral bloodline, and everything else is just wannabes. But Pete says this is not the case. Which would lead to me believe its a phenotype (like "pastel".

I wish he would just define the trait as either a phenotype or a bloodline and end the confusion.

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