A question about morphs and aging

[CloudtheBoa]

Your best bets would be to look into pastel boas, and as you mentioned jungles are a good contender. Diem Marie like chip07 mentioned has lots of pastel babies that beat the majority of hypos imo. Anything with a strong pastel lineage will only get better with age. Since pastel is a polygenic trait, you can get pastel pretty much anything. Make sure to ask for pictures of the parents, and if they're old enough look for any holdbacks from litters produced by those parents. Holdback offspring are going to be better than their parents, and show the potential of other babies provided the pastel pairings are maintained. Many will also be the same or less colorful than the parents as adults, but the more generations of pastel parentage and the stricter the breeder is about doing pastel-only breedings, the more likely it is the whole litter is going to have great potential. Unfortunately, with these sorts of pairings the outcome is very much a toss of the dice. A baby that starts out dull and completely lacking in contrast could grow into an adult with absolutely stunningly bright colors and crazy contrast, while that one baby born with amazing colors and contrast severely dulls out by adulthood and looks fairly average. It usually takes 2-3 years for them to gain the majority of their colors, and they could easily continue changing colors until 5-6 years. So if you're going in this hoping for great-looking adults, you're looking at a game of chance and a long wait ahead of you.

Just buying from a certain lineage unfortunately is not going to guarantee you an adult that will look the way you're hoping. This waiting game and game of chance is why linebred animals are so much more expensive. It takes an incredible amount of time between generations of breeding, waiting for babies to grow up to see their potential, and strategizing pairings to enhance color further. This is also why, in general, it's hard to find top-quality linebred animals. It takes too much time and patience when you can just throw two animals together and make a morph combo.