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I am just trying to figure out what I can breed my Male Nerd Pastel to down the road. Anyone know what pastel Lines are compatiable with Nerds to make super Pastels?

Thanks,
Bill

n/p

That isn't entirely true. By compatable, one usually assumes that it is the same morph (and not just selective breeding), but I don't believe that it has been proven that Nerd's pastel is the same mutation as graziani's. Since it is a co dom morph, when bred to another line, you will get a combination of the two lines which may appear to be a super pastel, but until that super is bred back to a normal, we won't be able to know whether they are two different morphs or one in the same.

I bred all unrelated captive pastels to wild caught pastels..........just like all of our animals started out.......from africa.........and i got supers........

Its a no brainer!

A PAStel is a Pastel...........regardless of who it comes from.........

Proven again with the cinnies.

Jared Horenstein

But have you then bred them back to a normal yet. Compare the two following situations. I'd like to know what you think Jared.

1. Green Ghost x Orange Ghost. All offspring are ghost, but when those offspring are bred to normals and then the het females bred back to their father, all the ghosts looked alike...i.e. there wasn't both green and orange ghosts.

2. Spider bred to a pastel = Bumblebee's (and spiders and pastels). One obviously thinks they are two different morphs, but until the bumblebee's were bred back to normals, how is one to know that they wouldn't be like ghosts.

This is the point I'm trying to make...just because you have something that LOOKS like a super (phenotype), doesn't mean that they are the same morph (genotype). Until the resulting super can be bred back to a normal, it's incorrect to state that they are the same morph.