Quote Originally Posted by LadyOhh View Post
Your arguement is that a visual pastel is a Het Pastel.
That is what I am saying.

That to me is erroneous for this reason.
I said most people don't use the term het with pastel, since it is obvious. BUT the snake still is a heterozygous pastel

How can you be Het for being visual considering it is a co-dom morph?
You keep making the same error. Heterozygous does not mean recessive. Heterozygous means having 1 allele of a gene, which is exactly what a pastel is.

The whole definition of co-dom is that there are normals and there are Pastels. Black and White, no grey in the middle.
No the whole definition of Co-dominant means the gene is expressed in the phenotype(physical appearance). Co-dominant genes also only require 1 allele to appear in the phenotype, where as recessive genes require 2 alleles.

Why use that definition when it is SO misleading?
Because that is genetics....The Ball Python industry has streamlined genetics and in turn caused misconceptions.

I can understand where the arguement for a Pastel being het for SUPER pastel, but a normal pastel being het Pastel is not really semantically correct to me....

Pastel is the heterozygous form of a Super Pastel, which makes the Pastel heterozygous. Semantically correct or not, that is genetics.