There has been confusion regarding this in other forums so I'll clear it up here as well.

Pastel dreams are a BLOODLINE (period). This bloodline was developed through normals with the goal of increasing color by means of reducing black. Reducing black reveals color to allow more effecient selective breeding towards it. It is this work done by Jeff Ronne that yeilded such amazing albinos.

At initial glance, there are similarities (they are both high etherin albinos). But defenitly distinctively different.

If Pete wants to call corals a phenotype he needs to define the parameters (what constitutes a coral?). If corals are a phenotype and pastels fall within the parameter of coral then they can be one in the same. Until Pete clears it up all we have is speculation.

My personal opinion is that corals are a bloodline. They were derived through an F1 breeding (high genetic variation) and spawned from that line. That to me seems obvious that it is a bloodline.

The reason Pete may have told me that people can call their albinos corals if they look coral even if they are not known to be from that line is possibly because the corals were developed so early on, there are many out there from that het that threw the corals. And coral could pop up. But thats not how it works. For example.. if I find a genetic abberant boa that is similiar to a jungle .. Its possible that it came from and is the same bloodline as the sweedish jungle line ... but I dont call it a jungle because I dont know it to be from that line. I cannot come to that conclusion without knowing for sure.

Some may argue that pastel dreams albinos came from the an albino that descended from the original het that threw the corals... and that, of course, is a possibility. But make no mistake, the color came from the pastel influence... coral didnt sporadicly pop up into Jeff's albino line suddenly when he introduced pastelism to it (and to think it did would be irrational).

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