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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• Black pastel, Cinnamon pastel and Red Axanthic........question - fsr, Mon Aug 15 13:06:06 2005
• Well...sort of, but not - Matt...Hennek, Mon Aug 15 13:55:16 2005
• you forgot one......... - joshhutto, Mon Aug 15 14:38:50 2005
• I believe that is the same as a black pastel. In fact they were the first - Oz, Mon Aug 15 20:26:50 2005
• RE: Black pastel, Cinnamon pastel and Red Axanthic........question - alanz, Mon Aug 15 14:47:35 2005
• RE: Black pastel, Cinnamon pastel and Red Axanthic........question - MAHLON, Tue Aug 16 18:41:46 2005