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I know a pin X Pastel gives you a lemon blast. Does a pin X super pastel give you a super lemon blast?

Let's see:

All will be pastel
Some will be super pastel
50% chance of pins...

25% pastel
25% super pastel
25% lemon blast
25% super lemon blast

Blessings,

Steve

You have to have pastel on both sides to get a super. All would be pastel and half pins also, this half would be lemon blasts

What is a cool morph to breed with a female super pastel? I have many morphs, i.e. pins, spiders, het pieds, het genetic stripes, het orange ghosts, and will probably pick up a male lesser. What would you get together with your super pastel? Thanks

I'd breed her to the spider, pin and lesser.
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Tosha
JET Pythons

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Hey, you beat me to it, lol!

Shelly

I would probably breed her to the pin and the spider. Then you would get a surprise at hatching time. If you got the lesser, you could always add him to the mix. I have a few females that are being bred by multiple males this season. Just don't try it with recessives...you won't know which babies are het for what.

Hope this helps,
Shelly

But if Mike says "no", then it's no- his experience way trumps mine!

Stevo

Since the super is the homozygous form, breeding it to a normal will yield heterozygous animals (i.e. pastels). It is akin to breeding an albino to a normal and producing all heterozygous animals (there is no way to produce an albino unless the normal is heterozygous for albino). Since pastel is co-dominant, the heterozygous forms are visual morphs.

Exactly.

Steve, just remember that the super pastel is homozygous for the pastel mutation - both of its copies of the pastel gene have the pastel mutation (just like an albino is homozygous for the albino mutation).

Also remember that each parent contributes one copy of each gene to the offspring (with a few exceptions on the gender chromosome). So the super pastel can only pass on one pastel mutant copy but since it's homozygous all of its offspring do get the mutant version. If the other parent is normal for pastel then it will always pass on the non mutant version of the gene. So the babies will all be regular heterozygous pastels with one mutant version and one normal version of the gene.