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Excuse me I'm not at all got up on ball morphs all that well I keep and breed colubrids mainly...so my question is if you bred a pastel to a normal are all the babies pastel? And what else is the pastel gene being used for? Thanks
Chris
Captive Bred Reps BY:CHIRS FLOWERS

No-statistically, half the babies, on average, will be pastels. Pastels are basically "visible hets" for the more extreme "super pastel" or "opal" ball. Just think of a pastel as you would a "non-visible" colubrid het like a het amel or het anery corn, for example.....

Brad Chambers

Only half of the clutch will come out pastel statiscally. Sometimes you beat the odds and sometimes you dont. As far as what they are used for well, LOL that is a whole other post. Just too many to say (Basically everything looks better with Pastel in it.)

off the top of my head, all of these have been crosed so far and I'm sure I'll miss some.

pastel x

axanthic
albino
lav albino
ghost/hypo
clown
pied
dessert ghost
spider
pinstripe
mojave
lesser/butter
calico
vanilla
cinny/black pastel
sable
chaos
shatter pattern
sulfur
phantom (i think but not positive)
granite
yellow belly/het ivory
fire
woma

I'm sure there are more and when I have more time, I'll try to get an actual list. The one thing you have to remember is that there are several combos involving multiple traits and involving super pastels so the list is really longer than even this shows. It's amazing that people sell probably the most important morph as far as designers go for so cheap. I've heard of male pastels sell for less at shows than normals do in pet stores, now that's rediculous.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!