See, I'm not sure. I don't see the white on the lips that I look for in pastels. What I can see of the belly in some of the shots, the white doesn't go all the way to the sides like my pastels do. I don't even see any blushing on the head.
Just from these photo's I'd lean towards "pastel-ish", but probably not a pastel.
Here's the question that you need to ask yourself though - if you're planning on breeding - what is your goal? Is it to produce really nice pastels, or just produce pastels for the sake or producing pastels?
If it's to produce really nice pastels, he wouldn't be the one I'd use as my breeder. Sure, you could breed him to a really light normal and try to improve his looks (if he is indeed a pastel), but just the fact that you have to question if he is or isn't....well, that sort of tells you whether he's the quality you want to breed or not.
Here's an example of the traits I'm looking for even in a somewhat brown baby. This happens to be a lemon pastel, that tend to go through an ugly duckling stage before they develop into a swan - even though he's brownish in this picture - his lips fade up, and he has a faded head:
This is him after he got some size on him.
He's now in Ed's collection (Freakie_frog) and he can post some pictures of what he looks like now if he sees this thread.
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