Black Pastave?

[Lolo76]

My original plan with Dave the black pastel was to make black pewters, with a female pastel I was hoping to produce myself - but unfortunately, mister Toby hasn't made any eggs yet (despite two seasons of locking with girls). I don't really want to BUY a female pastel, so I was thinking of what else I could pair him with... aside from the obvious normals, of course.

My only female morphs thus far are a lesser & mojave (two mojos if I keep one from this latest clutch), so I was thinking maybe I could make "black pastaves?" Did a quick search for that on Google, but I don't see anything coming up... so does anyone know if they've been made? If not, do you think this would be a cool combo? My black pastel is very blushed, almost cinnamon-like, so I think he'd go well with a light mojo.

[Lolo76]

P.S. What else does a black pastel go well with, if I were to buy a new female? Not including another b.p., as I'm not a fan of the supers.

Oh, and here's Dave!



Without flash... his true coloring is somewhere between these two pics.

[EverEvolvingExotics]

If you are willing to take the long route, black pastel albinos are amazing as well as black pastel hypos. I want to go for both when I make all the ingredients! I have yet to see an adult but I love what black pastels do with the yellow belly gene, and as far as I've seen most yellow belly combos just improve with age...

In all reality, 2-3 years from now when you get that female up to size your mind will have changed many times.

[Lolo76]

In all reality, 2-3 years from now when you get that female up to size your mind will have changed many times.

Haha... true dat.

Good ideas, though - thanks! Btw, one of my female mojos is already over a year old (and around 400g?), and the lesser is almost two... so hopefully it won't be TOO long before they're ready. But yeah, if I got a new female for him, I'd be looking at 3ish years to change my mind over & over.

[Maddumpling]

oooooooooo the black pastel albinos look awesome. I might do that in the future.

[Blue Apple Herps]

IIRC, black pastel mojaves are called "black magics" - black pastave implies three genes, black pastel, pastel, and mojave.

But it is a wicked cross. I did cinnamon x mojave last year and produced two savannahs - held back one pictured here.

Black pastel goes well with a lot of things, you could plug in a recessive (hypo, pied, etc) or another co dom, enchi, yellow belly, vanilla, etc.

[snake lab]

All my black pastel stuff are going into pieds. To give me better odds into my panda project

[LadyOhh]

Mojave Black Pastels are amazing...



I hatched one out this year and I love it!

Here is my Lesser Black Pastel




So are Mojave Cinnamons.



(On the bottom)

And add some Pastel (Super Pastel to be exact)...

[Blue Apple Herps]

Heather, those are killer!!! If my savannah is up for the task this year (still a little small), I'm going to stick him with my super pastel for some mojave pewters, the super pastel part makes me even more excited for the project!

[meowmeowkazoo]

I personally love black pastel champagnes. The black pastel makes the champagne look very smooth and almost velvety.