Pastel Enchi x Mystic

Well, as the title says, this is a Pastel Enchi x Mystic clutch. This was the first season of laying for the Pastel Enchi, and she did a great job, laid 9 eggs. All 9 eggs hatched out and so I put together a little collage to show the hatchlings under the same lighting conditions. I think I got the following:

Top Row: Mystic, Pastel Mystic, Pastel Mystic
Middle Row: Mystic, Pastel Enchi Mystic, Enchi Mystic
Bottom Row: Normal, Enchi, Pastel Enchi

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...08-09_comp.jpg

Wow that first mystic and pastel enchi mystic are smokers :O

I love the heads on those pastel mystics! Absolutely stunning! :O

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Originally Posted by oskyle1567

Wow that first mystic and pastel enchi mystic are smokers :O

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I agree 100%. Very Nice Congrats

Great results and congrats on the quality pairing!

Wow, like velvet. Smokin, very nice.

Thanks guys. I was real pleased with the results. The Pastel Enchi Mystic is going to be my holdback (it's a female), so that's exciting!

Wow! Those are all smoking hot! Nice big clutch for a first time female. How big was she when she laid?

Great clutch results!

So in talking with another breeder, I may have misidentified the first snake and the sixth snake. I have edited the collage to add numbers by each snake and then taken some additional side by side shots with the numbers from the collage placed by each snake.

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...2014-08-09.jpg
Originally I thought the snakes were as follows:
1 Female Mystic
2 Male Pastel Mystic
3 Female Pastel Mystic
4 Female Mystic
5 Female Pastel Mystic Enchi
6 Female Mystic Enchi
7 Male Normal
8 Female Enchi
9 Female Pastel Enchi

The other breeder thought that 1 is actually the Mystic Enchi, 6, is the Pastel Mystic Enchi and 5 may be either a Pastel Mystic or a Pastel Mystic Enchi. Based on the following comparison shot of 1 and 4, I think he was right that 1 is the Mystic Enchi.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...2014-09-08.jpg
1 and 4 look rather different from each other, and 4 looks like all 3 Mystics from the same Mystic male to a female Mojave.

Based on this picture, I think that both 5 and 6 are Pastel Mystic Enchis.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...2014-09-08.jpg
1 is the Mystic Enchi
3 is the Pastel Mystic
4 is the Mystic
5 is the one I originally labeled as Pastel Mystic Enchi
6 is the Pastel Mystic Enchi
In this picture 5 is different from 3, but not the same as 6. In my eye, 5 is different from 3 in the same way that 1 is different from 4, which would make sense, since going from 4 to 1 would be adding the Enchi gene to the Mystic gene and from 3 to 5 would be adding the Enchi gene to the Pastel Mystic combination. I am wondering though if the differences between 5 and 6 are just the natural variation in the Pastel Mystic Enchi combination.
The final picture has the Pastel Mystic (3) with both Pastel Mystic Enchis (5 and 6).
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file..._enchi_rig.jpg

What do you guys think?