Newbie can't tell between Pastel and a pretty Normal... help?

[JBird]

Ok! I think I understand much better now. You all are an incredibly helpful bunch, thanks!

[sunshinenorcas]

It looks a lot like Tali, who is definitely 'just' a pretty normal Tali was also a petstore purchase, so who knows what the heck is going on genetically. She's pretty though.

[JBird]

Goodness, she is gorgeous! And she does look an awful lot like my boy's pretty normal. "Normal" or not, we love them and love showing them off!

[BlckPhntm]

There should be a "how to id normals" sticky.

Normal

[Alexiel03]

Normal, sometimes the bright normals look like pastels but you should be able to tell the difference by the eyes, i bought one a while back and thought it was a pastel but she lacked the green eyes. i have photos of her in my gallery on my profile along with photos of the normal het albino male i used to have too for comparison on color. she was extremely yellow with a nice stripe. she was a normal as far as i knew and wanted to breed her to see if she had anything special in her. she was a dinker but escaped and we never found her, makes me sad too cuz she was so beautiful :/ i also have a few older started threads on the forums with more pics of her too.

[Neal]

@OP - Just looks like a very nice normal.

It looks a lot like Tali, who is definitely 'just' a pretty normal Tali was also a petstore purchase, so who knows what the heck is going on genetically. She's pretty though.

I would breed her to see if you get anything.

[sunshinenorcas]

@OP - Just looks like a very nice normal.


I would breed her to see if you get anything.

Sorry, raising from the dead a little, but didn't see this until like right now haha

I've played with the idea, but I wouldn't even know where to start in regards to morph. I don't know if she's het for something, a dinker, or just a pretty normal. I've heard het albino because of her high white, but that could just be her. I don't want to throw ALL the morphs at her just to see if there's something hidden in there, because with no background, there's a pretty good chance that she's a normal and she'd just be producing a bunch of normals and het's... and there are a lot of normals and a lot of pretty normals.

And I'm not sure if I want to get full time into the breeding thing. I do know a reptile place near here that I've worked with and I have friends who work there... I've thought about a breeding loan where they keep eggs. IDK. I more want to see what'd she'd produce more then anything Which isn't the best mindset for a breeder haha. She's only 400grams though, so I got a lot of time to think about it