Please take a look..

[RichieBoo]

Hi coulpe of questions.1st,what do u look for to know if it is a black pastel...2nd, can u take a look at the belly... i think before i got him he had belly rot.. and 3rd, are these pied markers....if u look at the belly pics there weird and they look funky...thanks for looking...RichieBoo.

[RichieBoo]

If you look at the first pic in the middle of the stomache it is scarred and then the sides look like they were pulled into the middle of the stomache ...hope i explained myself right..

[snakesRkewl]

Black pastels....
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-Black-Pastels

I would make sure the bedding is kept dry if the wound isn't healed all of the way, it's hard to see very well in the pics.

[aalomon]

Well it doesnt look like a black pastel to me, just a very browned out pastel. Those stomach markings look like old burns and no, those are not pied markings. Hope that helps.

[Quiet Tempest]

I don't see black pastel, either. Just a very browned out jungle pastel. The train track markings do look a bit like het pied markers, but unless there was a pied somewhere in the known lineage I wouldn't attribute it to anything more than neat belly markings. However, if you had a pied or het pied female to pair him with at some point in the future after he's out of quarantine and completely healed, you could certainly try to prove him out as a het pied.