The Black Pastel and Cinnamon Pastel are outwardly very similar and seem to be the same. Breeding two black pastels together yields a very dark almost black snake (hence the name), while breeding two cinnamon pastels together yields more of a chocolate color snake.



Now they may be the same morph and the differences being that the black pastel is more black due to a polygenic factor caused by line breeding. I believe it was BHB who crossed a black pastel and a cinnamon and got a black snake. The only way I see that this could be disproven is if a homo black pastel is bred to a homo cinnamon pastel and then their offspring bred to normals. If any normals pop out, then they are 2 different morphs.



Red axanthics are different. The het red axanthics look similar to the cinnamon or black pastel, but the homo red axanthics look like an axanthic and not a solid black/brown snake.



Hope this helps.



Matt

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