My first Dinker!! ....Well...sort of...

Picked this gal up at a local pet shop in town. They do randomly carry one or two Pastels, and I've gotten a Spider from them before, but it's very rare for them to have morphs. This girl was grouped up with 3 other 'normals' for sale. At this time they did not have any other morph for sale.

When I first saw her I was %50 sure she was something other than normal. Now that I have her home and am able to look at her more closely I am %90 sure she's a Pastel.

BUT I'm calling it a dinker because the label was a normal =P, so I'll have to dinker around and breed to be %100 sure :D

Here are the pics! Thoughts?

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Thanks for lookin!

Well i looks like a normal, but if it's a pastel, it's the lowest quality pastel i've ever seen. For being that young, she should not be that browned out. Good pickup though, for the right price i hope!!??

I thought "PASTEL!" the moment I saw the first picture. Nice little treasure you found! :gj:

Let's see those eyes :) (Pastels have green eyes)

Looks pastel to me from the way her coloring and belly is.

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Originally Posted by steveboos

Well i looks like a normal, but if it's a pastel, it's the lowest quality pastel i've ever seen. For being that young, she should not be that browned out. Good pickup though, for the right price i hope!!??

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I agree that if she turns out to be pastel, it wouldn't be the best, and I almost typed that in this post =). I currently own a couple sub-adults that are super bright and she's nothing in comparison, but compared to 2 of my normals, the difference in her is crazy! And the price was welllll worth it. I would not have purchased if they did not have a sale!

Looks like a pastel to me, just very low quality.

Let's see the head! Looks like a lower quality pastel at first glance to me too though.

Pastel..

Pastel or not, raise her up and see what she produces! She is a hottie.

Pastel.. Alot of these stores get the normals that the big breaders produced and din't want to deal with.. can highly be a brown pastel that just got thrown in there..

that or it's one SUPER normal.. :)

Anyone should see the pastel in it. Low quality, but a good find none the less.:)

No question that it's a pastel. Congratulations!

You can see the green eyes if you look, so yes it's a pastel. Not the most amazing pastel, but a pastel nonetheless.

Gale

oh ya its a pastel. how big is she?

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Originally Posted by mpkeelee

oh ya its a pastel. how big is she?

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She is right at the 200g mark. So still a youngin' =)

her marking are very close to my male pastel I have, hes dark but a pastel none the less. I like some of the more browned out ones. Dont get me wrong I like bright yellow too though!

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Originally Posted by JLC

I thought "PASTEL!" the moment I saw the first picture. Nice little treasure you found! :gj:

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Pastel for sure, 100%.

I too say she looks like a dark pastel. She looks like a male that I have that is ch but until I breed him I can't say he's a pastel for sure. I would breed her to a high yellow pastel male then you should get some nice babies.

Breed her to a black pastel or cinni and see if you get pewters :D

Its pastel. Can tell by the browning ending by the white sides. Thats another give away without seeing eyes.

Yeah, I'm now pretty positive of the pastel fact. Again can't be 100% sure without breeding.

Lupe brought up a good point though. If I breed her to a cinnamon, will the Pewters be even darker then they normally are? Has anyone tried selective breeding with dark and light pastels to see the different it makes in the outcomes? I have seen dark and light Bees, and personally I love the really light yellow bees, but in something like a pewter where it's not about the yellow, I'm wondering if the dark pastel is the way to go.

Even going as far as a Savannah Pewter, Silver Streak, or Silver Bullet, will a dark Pastel in the mix darken them up? I think that might be even more striking. Just a thought.

Pastel or not....she's pretty! But, I like all BP's! LOL!!!!!

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Originally Posted by SeanL

Lupe brought up a good point though. If I breed her to a cinnamon, will the Pewters be even darker then they normally are? Has anyone tried selective breeding with dark and light pastels to see the different it makes in the outcomes? I have seen dark and light Bees, and personally I love the really light yellow bees, but in something like a pewter where it's not about the yellow, I'm wondering if the dark pastel is the way to go.

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I can't speak from experience in selective breeding these guys, but I can say that IMO, light versus dark pewters are no comparison -- the really good light ones almost look like a sterling, and the dark ones turn into solid brown snakes that almost look (to me) like a patternless BP as adults (AKA "Mr. Hankey ball" ...)

It'd be an interesting breeding experiment though -- although I'm inclined to agree that trying for super dark Savannahs might be a cooler project :cool:

Neat pickup either way -- not the best color, but I really like her banded pattern! :)