Just a Pastel...or another color morph?

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Originally Posted by bad-one

Spiders also have green eyes ;)

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As do some normals. :-)

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Don't feel bad about the morph thing hon. My first Petco ball was a Cinnamon Calico Enchi. Worth at last $20,000. Or at least, she was until I learned a little more about how much variation there is in "normal" ball pythons, and eventually learned what some of the morphs really looked like.

It does take time. Some things, like spiders and pinstripes, you can't mistake for anything else. But there are still a LOT of morphs out there I can't tell from a normal, and I've been doing the reptile show circuit for about 6 years now.

Pastels are easiest when they are babies. Because the really good ones are bright yellow, and I mean bright yellow. Others are orange instead of yellow, but you still know exactly what they are. As they get older, they "brown out" as we say. The yellows and orange fade into browns and tans. It takes an experienced eye to pick out an adult pastel most of the time, because they were one of the early morphs imported into the country, and most people didn't care what they bred them to to make more, so eventually the bright yellow snakes faded and muddied into the not-so-nice pastel's we commonly see today. Only a very few people cared more about what the snakes looked like than how much money they could make, so although there are some really amazing adult pastels out there, they are few and far between and hard to find. Robin has one, his name is Winston.

Once upon a time, I thought only pastels and spiders had green eyes, but I have since learned this is not always true. The easiest way for me to pick out an adult pastel is the "brown out line". All pastels, even the ugliest and darkest ones, will have a noticeable line down their sides. The upper body and back will be some shade of brown, tan or in rare cases yellow, with a line drawn from head to tail about mid way down the side, and below that line the sides will be some shade of cream, light tan or yellowish white. Once you know what to look for, it is un-mistakable.

What you have is a really lovely reduced pattern normal female. My favorite kind of normal.

Gale

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Originally Posted by bad-one

Spiders also have green eyes ;)

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Ooo that's really awesome!


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Aww thanks everyone! :)

Yeah the yellow leaf thing, I don't know. She sounded like she knew what she was talking about and I'd only been a herper for a yearish, so I bought it. Then I googled and was confused why it never came up. So, yeah, I figured either she forgot the actual name of the morph she was thinking or was full of it lol!


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Originally Posted by Scirlygirl

Nope, they have black beady eyes. In fact, I've only heard of pastels having green eyes, I don't know about other morphs? I should look into that!


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There are actually a lot of other morphs out there that have greenish eyes. Even my Lesser has a coppery green and I've seen a Mojave with greenish eyes too.

Spiders and Pastels definitely take the cake in the green eyes department though and Bumblebees are usually then some. I mean, dang, just check out this Bee I saw at an expo last year. This was the greenest I've ever seen in any BP.
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My baby girl-

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