My new "Female" pastel

[jmugleston]

Here are a few more photos I took this evening. The color still is duller in the photos, but the general idea is seen. One of our Argentine boas dropped her babies today so most the evening was taken cleaning up that mess (pics coming soon!). Anyway, in what daylight was left I shot these pics. Once again, I don't care if it isn't a pastel. I don't have much riding on it being so. I didn't buy it as such. It just looked to be different from the normals I've come across (in my earlier years as a pet store employee and for a short stint while wholesaling to petstores). I was a bit bummed when I found out they sexed it incorrectly. I thought I'd keep it anyway. If it is a normal, that is fine. If it isn't, I'd like to know. Please provide input (regarding the characters of a pastel) as to why it is or isn't just an exceptional normal. I was going off the faded head and the yellow bleeding through the brown. I could be wrong. I'm not too worried about it as ball pythons are side project and nothing that I plan on pursuing much further than a few preferred morphs. I'm not trying to be a jerk or doubt your opinions. I'd just like to know what is being used to determine one way or the other.

[Courtney281]

Here, check out the hunters guide to pastels. Its a thread here, heres the link
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ot-...-Pastels

[jmugleston]

I wish I could find an edit button so I didn't have four posts directly next to each other. I have found some morph guides and I too am doubting him being a pastel. So looks like my pretty normal female is most likely a pretty normal male.

[jmugleston]

Here, check out the hunters guide to pastels. Its a thread here, heres the link
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ot-...-Pastels

That's the one I found and was reading when you posted. Thanks.

[llovelace]

You may find this helpful also

http://www.worldofballpythons.com//

[A.VinczeBPs]

The hunters guide is very well done, it should show everything (thank you to Courtney for posting link)
The Patterns of a pastel are simple: Less alien heads, way more orange and yellow color (way way way more), back line (The line between back color and side color, all pastels have it, even browned out ones), back blushing, and back highlights.

Yours is a pretty normal, looks like one of mine, with more color. And the color of yours actually looks like it is a pigment issue, sometimes they lose color and gain is back in splotches which gives it an uneven look and less brown coloration.

Again, dinker if you want, but until proven it's a normal.