Difference between desert ghost and pastel axanthic?

Hi, I visited a pet shop over the weekend and they had a snake that i thought right away was a desert ghost. I asked the store worker what it was and they said the owner had forgotten and it had been purchased before she started working there. She thought it was a mojave ghost but it had completely normal patterning and was definetly the grey of desert ghost and not the yellow of a normal ghost. I wasn't comfortable buying a snake with unknown genetics and i still am not. On the way home I tried to look up other morphs and found that a pastel axanthic is very close. Is there any indicators that tell that a snake is for sure a desert ghost vs other morphs?

A desert ghost is not grey and does not look like a pastel axanthic.

Desert ghosts as babies look similar to normals but with a milky sand color. The real magic happens as they get older :gj:. Adults look completely different. Definitely nothing like pastel axanthic. Check out world of ball pythons.

Can you get us some pictures?

Pictures would help, desert ghost look nothing like pastel axanthic ;)

I will contact the store and see if i can get any pictures. They are in a town over so not easily available. I have checked out world of ball pythons and looking at pictures like these:

http://newenglandreptile.com/webpics/oct1dg2.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p.../Jacki792g.jpg

I thought they looked pretty similar which is why i started this thread. And I don't know what color you would call that if not gray. I was just looking for some notable way to distinguish between them. Other than that they apparently look nothing alike, nothing has been said. I will still try to get pics to try to figure out exactly what he is as I am definetly curious.

EDIT: Even the thread i took the first picture from states that it looks just like a pastel axanthic to them. http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ert-Ghost-*PIC*