Re: Which line of pastel would you say he is?
I will start my own thread sorry
Re: Which line of pastel would you say he is?
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bman123
So you are saying that mixing lemon pastel with any other morph removes the tag lemon pastel from the animal?
Possibly not in the first generation, but definitely after a few. They were bred to look the way they do, it's not just a single gene like the pastel gene itself--if you start breeding them to animals that don't have those characteristics, you aren't going to have lemon pastel offspring. Breed them to ordinary normals for a few generations, and you won't be able to tell they came from lemon pastel lines.
It doesn't matter whether you breed them to other pastels--the pastel is just a single gene, but all of the other traits are controlled by a constellation of other genes. To preserve the lemon pastel look, you'd have to breed them to snakes that are as yellow as possible, with as little brown as possible, and have bold markings. If you bred a lemon pastel to a super-dark high blush normal, you might not even be able to tell the sire was a lemon pastel when you look at the offspring. They'd pick up mom's other traits.
Re: Which line of pastel would you say he is?
I'm not sure I agree with this. Breeding a Lemon pastel to any other normal or morph should not change the fact that the resulting pastels are lemon pastels. Pastels in all lines can vary greatly with some darker or more blushed than others. If what is being said is true then any Lemon pastel designer morph (bumble bee, pastave, etc) is no longer considered Lemon pastel and could not produce Lemon pastel offspring.
I do agree that if you mix Lemon pastel with other pastel lines then you wont know what you are getting in the offspring.