I wanted to ask this because I'm new to pastels and and I'm seeing some conflicting thoughts concerning this topic.

OK I've heard a lot about pastel individuals "browning out" with age quite a bit since I got my pastel girl back in February. And I've pretty much accepted that she isn't the best quality pastel seeing as how most feedback on her has ranged from neutral to negative, and I'm OK with that. She's a great girl, very tame, eats like a horse, and is in perfect health.

However, I've been looking at a lot of pictures of pastels and it seems to me like almost all of them brown out. Many of the older ones I'm seeing look much less colorful even than mine, and a lot of the sites I'm going on say that this is fairly normal. From what I'm gathering, what I'm seeing with Mocha really doesn't seem that big a deal. In fact, female pastels the size of Mocha on Kingsnake seem to be going for much more than just normals of the same size. Upwards of $500 for even the really browned out ones, if they're females (Of course much more for the brighter ones, but those seem super rare). What are your thoughts on this? I'm not really educated on this so I'm just asking so that I can have a better idea.

By the way this is Mocha, for those who have not seen her. She is about 1100 grams and is assumed to be a 2010 animal.