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    Best pastel for firefly?

    Hello there all,
    So after buying my fire and trying to plan my next two females to fill my rack, (pretty sure a female butter to go with my male Mojave is in the works) I'm trying to think which female pastel would go best into a firefly.

    I know everyone looks for different things in a pastel, how about the firefly? In your opinions should I go for blushing in the pastel or the highest contrast I can find. Which "lines" do you think would go best?

    I've seen the posts about what to look at for pastels to avoid browning out in a year or two, with fires adding the lightening affect is that a big concern with flies?

    As usual any pics of the perfect female for fireflies are appreciated... I swear the multitude of pictures are why I keep coming back to this site!

    Thanks alot

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    Re: Best pastel for firefly?

    I would select for lots of blushing with the brightest yellows. Lines really don't matter as long as you have a good looking individual.
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    Re: Best pastel for firefly?

    Quote Originally Posted by alikax View Post
    Hello there all,
    So after buying my fire and trying to plan my next two females to fill my rack, (pretty sure a female butter to go with my male Mojave is in the works) I'm trying to think which female pastel would go best into a firefly.

    I know everyone looks for different things in a pastel, how about the firefly? In your opinions should I go for blushing in the pastel or the highest contrast I can find. Which "lines" do you think would go best?

    I've seen the posts about what to look at for pastels to avoid browning out in a year or two, with fires adding the lightening affect is that a big concern with flies?

    As usual any pics of the perfect female for fireflies are appreciated... I swear the multitude of pictures are why I keep coming back to this site!

    Thanks alot
    You question is a good one, but it's still subjective. It comes down to this: What things in a Pastel do you like best? The Fire can amp up contrast, & brightness. Then look at the animals over lines, lines are too general. Each line has both blah & wow factor examples.

    I personally like the Fireflies that are made with high blushing animals- they seem to glow! But the high contrast animals throw some amazing babies too! I'll put up a pic of the baby I'm getting in as soon as the breeder gets me an updated post-shed pic.
    All the Best,
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    Re: Best pastel for firefly?

    Heres a picture of a female Pastel we used to make FireFlies and here is a picture of the FireFlies(there is also a Pastel Het Ghostin the pic)



    Hope this helps! Good Luck!

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    Re: Best pastel for firefly?

    Wow those are some sick fireflies, and that pastel has some amazing contrast for being breeder sized

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    Re: Best pastel for firefly?

    I bought my lemon pastel from sloan and she is absolutly perfect, they produce a very nice looking line and as you can tell also turn out to be amazing fireflys.
    1.0 Lesser Platinum 0.1 Mystery Morph 0.1 Enchi 1.1 Yellow Belly
    1.0 08 Black Pastel 66% Poss Het Pied 0.1 09 Lemon Pastel
    2.0 09 Spider Ball 0.1 08 Pinstripe 0.0.1 09 Green Tree Python
    1.0 High Contrast Albino 1.0 Orange Ghost 66% pos het pied
    1.0 Fires 1.1 CH Granites 1.0 Woma Ball 2.4 Normals/dinkers
    0.1 Suriname Red Tails 0.0.1 Madagascan Giant Day Gecko
    0.1 08 Irian Jaya Carpet 0.0.1 Pac Man Frog 1.0 Jungle Raptor Leopard Gecko 1.0 Blizzard Leopard Gecko 0.1 Super Snow Patternless Albino Leopard Gecko 0.1 Blazing Blizzard 0.1 Jungle Leopard Gecko 0.1 Snow Blizzard


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