pastel owners!!

We got a rescue in today, thinkin he might be pastel but not sure. I don't wanna handle and take pics cuz we just got him I wanna wait a week. But can you guys post some pics of your pastels and tell me what exactly differs a pastel from a normal. He's at least 4 years old (the guy hd him for 4 years). But he's the same size as our '11 dinker male. He isn't underweight just small. He looks heathy had some shed so I did put him in a bath and got it off. But his belly is clean and his coloring is a little lighter. What really has me thinking he's pastel is his pattern though. So please post some pics for me ad if you could tell me what I'm looking for on him that differs pastels from normals. THANKS GUYS!!! =]

Green Eyes.

Older pastels can brown out quite a bit.

Here was my pastel when he was smaller. Pastels have green eyes. Other than that I can't really help much with an older snake.

http://img.tapatalk.com/aad7e22a-a553-d54d.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/aad7e22a-a560-3f4c.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/aad7e22a-a56c-1e42.jpg

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Originally Posted by jinx667

Green Eyes.

Older pastels can brown out quite a bit.

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x2 exactly what he said. I will post a pic of my pastel for you as soon as I am able.

I have pictures of my male pastel in my gallery.

Eyes are hard to tell he's got eyecaps =/ guess I just gotta wait n see xP thanks everyone =]

Pastels have green eyes and Normals have a dark brown/black.
Clear white belly and usually a significant amount of blushing compared to a normal

I don't have any adult sized pastels to compare color, just hatchling-yearling photos.

My female:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...1f/pastel4.jpg

My male:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...9878003_n1.jpg

BP.Net Morphs

You can't tell if a snake is a pastel based on it's pattern. Pastel is a color mutation not a pattern mutation.

My pastels are all over the board in their patterns for example here are two of my pastels side by side. One has a reduced pattern and one has a very busy pattern, what they have in common is the light/yellow coloration and blushing.

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/...s/IMG_2448.jpg

As stated pastels do brown out as they get older. I don't have any dark brown pastels in my collection but my lemon pastel is close to 1000g in this photo and at least a year and a half old. You can see she's not as yellow, but she is still light and has some blushing.

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/...s/IMG_2375.jpg

3+ year old guy

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...pastelmale.jpg

6 month old girl

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file.../kellynew3.jpg

Bump to the others' advice...the [green] eyes have it.

:)