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

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by oskyle1567

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

---

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?

Here are some updated photos.

First up is the Mystic Enchi (1), the definite Pastel Mystic Enchi (6), and the one I think is also a Pastel Mystic Enchi (5)
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...14-10-15_3.jpg

Second is a the Pastel Mystic (3) and the one I think is a Pastel Mystic Enchi (5)
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...14-10-15_3.jpg

great clutch gl with the little worms

Just grabbed a picture of the 2 female Pastel Mystic Enchis. They are gaining some good weight and looking great. The variability in this combination is cool.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...15-01-01_2.jpg

the look awesome, i would have a realy hard time choosing between the 2, i love the bright colors on nr. 6 but i also love the blushing and pattern on nr. 5


...... I would probably end up keeping both as you did i guess :)

wow , what a clutch!!! for me the snake on the right is much better than the other one, but i will keep both by curiosity to see the evolution and the differences between them increasing.

Yeah, I am keeping both Pastel Mystic Enchis as of now. If offered the right price, I will probably sell 1, but so far that hasn't happened

Nice job, great looking clutch!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by fatSNAKEs

Nice job, great looking clutch!

---

Thanks. This was one of my most anticipated clutches this summer.

Took some pictures today. The first two are pictures of all the snakes in this clutch that got the Enchi gene:

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...2015-01-10.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...2015-01-10.jpg

Here is a shot of the Mystic, Mystic Enchi, and Enchi (from bottom to top). I really like how you can see both the Mystic gene and the Enchi gene in the Mystic Enchi.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...2015-01-10.jpg

And here are 2 shots with the female Pastel Mystic in between both female Pastel Mystic Enchis
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...2015-01-10.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...2015-01-10.jpg