Morph ID discussion

[Pythonfriend]

The colors will vary, I've seen BP look better than Cinni's and then I've seen them look almost normal except for the head. People just to just interchange the BP and Cinni name. Like Butter and Lesser or Sugar and Calico, Het Red and Green Pastel

i dont buy that at all.

the thing is: people interchange butter and lesser because they are exactly the same thing. people interchange sugar and calico, here we dont know for sure if they are the same thing, but i say they are the same thing because all possible optics seem to be possible in both sugar and calico.

but cinnamon and black pastel are consistently different. they are allelic, and have similarities, but black pastel tweaks the pattern in ways that cinnamon does not. with black pastel, the pattern gets more busy, and you get dark spots or even dark lines within the patterning, cinnamons dont do that. cinnamon makes it darker, in the direction of dark brown, and tends to leave the pattern alone. some threads ago i read someone mentioning the possibility of creating a 5-stripe by combining tri-stripe and the right black pastel. there is no way you could do that or even conceive of it with cinnamon. final nail in the coffin: the super-forms look different. yes, both have the same genetic issues, but they consistently look different. super cinnamons are very dark brown (almost black) at the back, and towards the belly they go through different kinds of brown. super black pastels are very dark grey (almost black) at the back, and towards the belly they go through different stages of grey.

thats what caused my first reply, on page one. it was introduced to me as a cinnamon, and i looked at the pics, and i had a contradiction. its just not a cinnamon or at least not just a cinnamon. but it may be a black pastel. back when i made the first reply, i just somehow didnt have black pastel optics on the radar because it was introduced as a cinnamon. basically my brain just said "nay, that aint a cinny", and went from there, without making the connection to black pastel.

anyway, i now think that if you go for a super form of this, you are likely to get a super black pastel. but there still is the possibility that its something different and you get a different super form. the colors still confuse me.