A Breeder jumped down my throat at Tinley...

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As for parthenogenesis, a female will produce exact copies of herself, with the lack of male presence. If at any time a male was introduced to that female it is extremely unlikely the clutch would be a partho clutch unless all the babies were exact copies of the mother, which could still happen when bred normally.

It would not be possible for a pastel female to make super pastels by partho. The male was probably just low quality pastel or the female could have been a low quality super..

That is not correct Eramyl. In parthenogenesis the female produces half-clones of herself so a female Pastel that threw a partho clutch would produce only SuperPastels and normals.

And it is also very possible for females to throw partho clutches when exposed to males. I have an animal that has done it at least twice and Warren Booth has documented a slew of cases