Pastel vs Fire

[Lizardlicks]

Apparently I still have trouble telling them apart. For really obvious examples of the morphs it's easy, but not every snake is a good example of its morph! A snake I think looks like a pastel is just a really blushed out fire? That one looks like a fire to me, but turns out it's a browned out pastel with a lot of flames??? Is there some really obvious way to tell them apart that I'm missing, or is this something that comes down to experience?

[serpenttongues]

pastels always have "brown out" lines, even really nice examples have darker yellows and lighter yellows in the alien heads. the fires and vanillas are just a lighter brown instead of the pastel "yellow"

[BrianDallek]

Yup, what he said. I would take fire over pastel every time, but I prefer both

[John1982]

Pictures for identifying practice:

[Lizardlicks]

Thank you for the pics! So basically that "line" is what to look for?

[Zincubus]

Any chance of some labels as I'm non the wiser tbh ... Thanks

[samm]

yes, label of pics would help.

[TheSnakeEye]

The "line" is not what to look for. That is not even an identifying trait of what a Pastel is. A pastel is yellow/orange in color. Even a low quality baby can't be mistaken as anything other than a low quality pastel. Fire's are a bit tricky because a low quality one can look like a normal to the untrained eye. But distinguishing a Pastel from a Fire is very easy. Continue to look up pictures and you'll learn the difference.

PASTEL:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/pastel/

FIRE:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/fire/

[Lizardlicks]

The "line" is not what to look for. That is not even an identifying trait of what a Pastel is. A pastel is yellow/orange in color. Even a low quality baby can't be mistaken as anything other than a low quality pastel. Fire's are a bit tricky because a low quality one can look like a normal to the untrained eye. But distinguishing a Pastel from a Fire is very easy. Continue to look up pictures and you'll learn the difference.

PASTEL:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/pastel/

FIRE:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/fire/

I was looking at WoBP initially, but still having trouble seeing the difference when I saw more yellowy fires with blushing, or browned out pastels.

[TheSnakeEye]

Just look up more pictures and read up. You'll soon learn like we all did.