Ok... I'm not going to quote someone in this post just trying to get it straight with MY opinion...
This animal is confusing I NOW REALIZE that this is the snake in the OP that has laid the eggs. There are a few things about this snake that make me a bit concerned... The pattern being heavily keyholed. The color on the sides where the yellow of the sides goes into the dorsal, it is a bit dirty and on a Desert that is so small it should be very clean. Lastly the eye stripe at the back of the head is blurry whereas on most Deserts the eye stripe is very defined, looks like it was drawn on with a pencil. Again I thought the OTHER photo was the OP's snake as a hatchling not this one. To say that this animal is a Desert is tough!
This is definitely a Pastel Desert! It looks soft and crisp at the same time with not that much keyholeing in the pattern. This looks like the link photos I posted a couple of pages ago. ALSO I thought that this was a photo of the OP exact female. I didn't bother to match up the patterns since I have been referring to this photo this whole time. I now realize that this was a sibling to the OP's female.
This animal is one of our DEFINITE Pastel Deserts Note the stuff I mentioned above... Pattern, transitional side color and eye stripe.
We can't say for sure until it's eggs hatch LMAO Mike... what a whirlwind of confusion! I still have my same strong feelings about the other guy saying that I chimed in as part of the "desert market support" because that's BS I am happy to eat a little crap over the confusion but again... I didn't think the snake in the top photo was the OP animal but an animal that was being thought of as a Citrus Pastel. Thank you to Jake for trying to clear up his confusion of my post about the photos because it helped me find my own accidental confusion of the photos.
If any of that made any sense (I hope it did)
