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This little lady hatched out of a lesser pastel x pastel breeding but I don't know what to make of her.

She doesn't look like a pastel to me, but doesn't look like a normal either. She has oranges coming from her sides and covering most of her dorsal.

What's your opinion?

Tristan
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Tristan

1.0 Argentine Black and White Tegu (Roy)
1.1 Pastel Ball Pythons
1.0 Spider Ball Python
0.2 Normal Ball Pythons

It really just looks like a pretty normal.

She looks Normal to me too.
A lot of the Normals & Hets that I've hatched, had the orange, when they were babies.

Good luck with her, and the rest of the clutch!

btw - what else was in the clutch?
Ken
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1.1 Black Pastel Ball Pythons (Bima Pallaton, Bem Palesa)
0.1 Mojave Ball Python (Mitena)
1.1 Spider Ball Pythons (Sarki, Sade)
0.1 Pastel Ball Python (Panthea)
0.1 100% Het Albino Ball Python (Hazina Adamma)
1.0 Albino Ball Python (Apu)
0.5 Normal Ball Pythons (Norma, Nova, Nala, Nimeesha, Nyoka)

1.0 Desert Tortoise (Tubbs) from Tortoise Rescue
1.0 Boxer (Shadow)


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Thanks for your input guys, I figured she was a nicely colored normal. But who knows, I will keep her and raise her up anyway.

The rest of the clutch was pretty disappointing. It was lesser pastel male bred to pastel female. There were 8 eggs laid, but only 5 fertile.

Out of the 5, 3 eggs hatched, which were 2 normals and one super pastel female.

But... the disappointing part was that the other two eggs were a super pastel that was fully formed but dead in the egg. I found out by cutting it because it did not hatch on its own after 3 days.

The other one was a frankenstein lesser pastel. It was alive, but was kinked out with no face (i.e., no eyes or mouth). I did not take pics, but it was pretty weird looking!
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Tristan

1.0 Argentine Black and White Tegu (Roy)
1.1 Pastel Ball Pythons
1.0 Spider Ball Python
0.2 Normal Ball Pythons

I hatched a couple like that from a pastel X normal pairing this season. The above posters are right, it is just a nice-looking normal, but I admit they gave me pause as well....
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Brad Chambers
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The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

I agree with the other posts...it looks like a pretty normal. I have hatched several normals that have the orange sides when they firs come out
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