Hi everyone.
I'm still indecisive about what would make a good first pair... There's just so many beautiful colors out there. Every time I think I've decided I give it a week or so, and I get entranced by a new color! lol
I'm currently liking firefly, and I really love pastel leopards too. And BELs are just so darn adorable. So I was looking at a pairing of a firefly + firefly leopard.. (I just know if I get a female firefly I'm gonna name her Serenity. If you don't get that reference, you missed out on the best show that was canceled too soon, lol)
Only problem is, about 25% of the babies would be black eyed leucistics, and most of them would contain other genes. I've heard that putting a blacklight over them can bring out hidden patterns--would this show me if leopard got passed down? Or does that not always work?
Of course, it might be impossible to tell if the pastel/super pastel came through...
Even if it turns out that there is no way to tell, it would still be fun to play around with proving out the 'gamble babies' in a few years.
Here's the calculator, you can see lots of BELs on there. https://www.morphmarket.com/c/reptiles/pythons/ball-pythons/genetic-calculator/?s1=Fire%2CLeopard%2CPastel&s2=Firefly