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If two different lines of pastels are bred together, what's the result? Supers, or regular pastel hatchlings from both lines? In other words, are all lines of similar-looking pastels compatible? Blonds, lemons, Graziani, Bell, etc? I'm guessing that the clutch would be split between the two lines.
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It's a little tricky to prove if co-dominant genes are the same.

For example, what if different lines of pastels turn out to be different mutations of different genes (I don't think this is likely but lets just go with this for a minute). When you breed them together they would still produce 25% combinations which might look just like the 25% supers from breeding two pastels of the same line together. Because a single copy of each gene produces a pastel like effect the combined effect of both genes might produce a super pastel like effect. The only way to tell the difference between a combination of two different genes and a homozygous for a single gene would be to breed the suspected super to a bunch of normals and see what it produces. If there are two different genes involved from different chromosomes then the suspected super would produce about 25% normals and 25% of the super looking combo rather than the expected 100% pastels if the two lines are mutations of the same gene. It gets even more complicated if it turns out that there are different genes that produce pastel like animals but they happen to be near each other on the same chromosome. There is also the possibility of alleles, different mutations of the same gene.

By the way, with compatible lines pastel X pastel should produce 25% homozygous/super pastel, 50% pastel (which are heterozygous pastel), and 25% normal.