Curiouser and curiouser. I have been emailing the guy we got these snakes from. He says that he produced the male Caramel from the het male adult and 66% het female that we also got from him. The female is definitely to all appearances a normal-looking female. The male is "odd" looking, but it would be hard to call him a pastel-if anything he looks a bit like a "black pastel". his belly is clear.

I forgot my camera today-but tomorrow I intend to take pics of all protagonists in this drama and post them for your comments (the baby pastel of course is now opaque-but you can still see that he is a definite pastel)....