Unique Ball python pattern in hatchling

[Albert Clark]

Pairing was a normal female and a Super Pastel Male

Well i think that explains the eye color variance. Normal being dominant. Super pastel being the homozygous form the codom trait.

[yardy]

Well i think that explains the eye color variance. Normal being dominant. Super pastel being the homozygous form the codom trait.

No it doesn't - pastels have green eyes. It's possible that the photo colours are off though.

[Albert Clark]

No it doesn't - pastels have green eyes. It's possible that the photo colours are off though.

Well they can certainly have varying degrees of green along the color spectrum. And also the pairing of a normal to a pastel will affect eye color and its sharpness and contrast and vividness. I just hatched out a clutch of pastel 100% het pieds and they have varying eye colors.

[Albert Clark]

Mom

looks an awful lot like one of my ghost hets who has herself thrown some odd colored babies that needs further investigation, so she might be where this comes from.

@ yardy: It seems mostly that it's not the coloration in the hatchlings as it's more a patterning question in the identification. Except of course the eye color. I don't know if the OP could clarify the eye color for us though bc photo lighting can certainly play a role in any picture.