Is it fact that black pastels are named such because they have black markings and cinnamons are named such because they have brown markings? Because to me, both have *dark* markings on a lighter/warm base. Does anyone know the answer to this for sure or is the above statement an assumption?Originally Posted by h00blah
Does that mean BANANAS are yellow? And ORANGE dreams are orange?
In my limited experience, neither of these morphs are 'golden' and on the Graziani Reptils website it states:
"One of the males that I picked had an odd cinnamon color and he was not as bright as the rest. His dorsal pattern was normal... After a closer look at him we realized that he contained no yellow pigment. At that time we were calling him a Cinnamon ball python."
This implies that the morph was indeed named after the base color and not the dorsal color which was described as 'normal' which I assume ranges from dark brown to black; nor was the original animal 'golden' in any way.
I don't understand how people can believe that one is UGLY and one is GORGEOUS. They are honestly VERY similar in appearance, and such opinions are based on just that, opinion.
In a hypothetical situation where one were to cross a black pastel to a cinny, would one look at the hatchlings and determine without a doubt which animals were black pastel and which were cinny and confidently label and sell them as such?
Would one be able to look at them be say... ALL the 'ugly' ones were cinnies and ALL the good looking ones were black pastels or vice versa? That doesn't seem reasonable to me. Or all the 'black' ones black pastel and all the brown ones cinny?
Just some questions to think about...
To the OP, my opinion stands, there are benefits to having both variations if you can accommodate having an extra male.
Sorry for going off topic at all!
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