Please help me, I am now more confused then ever with this baby.

I started talking about this thread in this who's the daddy thread.. http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ny-Serious-DUW .

If you read thru that thread you will see that most people think the snake in question is a top of the line normal pastel, or a below average Super Pastel.

But after looking at him again tonight, I realized one HUGE thing I missed origionally. He does NOT have pastel eyes. Everyone knows that any pastel has to have the greenish brown eyes. This things eyes are BLACK. They are blacker then even a normal ball python. How can it possibly be a pastel or super pastel without pastel eyes?

What has colors like this with absoltuely black eyes? Is it some kind of weird pewter? Don't pewters have pastel eyes though too?

Here are pics of the snake in question and his pastel mom. These pictures are taken using no flash. I am standing under a flourescent light. The glare of the flourescent light almost makes it look like there is a tiny bit of color there but trust me... in person they are BLACK.






Anywhoo be honest. If you still think it is just a good pastel let me know... You certainly won't hurt my feelings. I just want to try to figure out what I am dealing with here.

Mike