Quote Originally Posted by SlitherinSisters View Post
I know you don't want to hear it either, but he's not a pastel. It's not the lighting or the pictures. He however is really neat! If you got him for $35 the pet shop or wherever you got him from, knows that he's not a pastel.
Not necessarily. The pet store received him on trade and due to the location, they know better than to try and charge more than 59.99 for a ball python (the $35.00 was their Christmas special).

I'm fine with him not being a pastel. I would like to know if there are any indicators for a pastel. So far I have nothing concrete to go on. I planned on pairing it with my mojave so an exceptional normal would have done just fine. Now that I know it is a male I'd like to have an idea (with evidence to back it up) what it is. I've heard a number of opinions and they may be correct. I'm fine with that, but how would you decide whether it fell within the normal variation of this morph or if it was just a wildtype ball python with an exceptional amount of yellow bleeding through the brown? Of course breeding it to a normal or super pastel would be a nice way to test it, but I'm sure most with pastels here bought them as babies. If you were unsure of its origin, how would you tell?