Most Sulfur or Fire combos look great as babies, and as they age, the Het Black eyed Lucy gene kicks in and the snake lightes up. Sulfur Spiders and Spider Fires look great as they age. However, I am saying that because of the PASTEL gene, the Fireflies do not. I have produced them, and can assure everyone, the Pastel gene browns out and the Firefly looks way better as a baby.

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I am hoping the above link works, maybe someone more computer savvy than me, can do a screenshot. In the gentleman's ad, he made the statement that Fireflies look better as adults. I asked him a simple question, about what he was basing his statement on. Foschi jumped in and told me to "do some research." That got a bit under my skin, especially since I owned adult Sulfur Pastels and hatched out a handful of them. So, my research was actually breeding the adults, hatching out the babies, watching one grow up to be an adult. I have first hand experience with the project, she did not, and was basing her bashing of me on reading a book or assuming that the Fire or Sulfur gene would erase the brown out. It does not, I would think that a nicer Pastel would brown out a bit less, but they still brown out, and a Sulfur Pastel looks way nicer as a baby. Foschi jumped into a thread where she was ignorant of the subject matter, and acted like she was a Firefly scholar. It looks like it has become a pattern with her, look at her Platty thread and several others.

To be clear, I am not talking about other Sulfur crosses, but just the Pastel cross. The Sulfur gene or Fire gene does not stop the browning out of the Pastel gene. YES, Firefly adults will look better than Pastel adults, but that was not the arguement, Sulfur Pastels look better as babies, than as adults.

Dave