Quote Originally Posted by hoo-t View Post
Yeah, but I'm kinda with Randy when he says that its not really correct to say het super pastel. The name of the trait is pastel, not super pastel. To me, super is a descriptive term to say that it is homozygous. So to say het super pastel would be similar to saying het homozygous pastel. So, in my mind a pastel is heterozygous for the pastel trait, or a "het pastel". Then there's Opal, another name for super pastel. So a pastel = het Opal.

Yellowbelly/Ivory opens a whole different can of worms. What's the name of the trait? Yellowbelly or Ivory? It almost seems like two different names for the same trait. Yellowbelly = het Ivory. Ivory = homozygous Yellowbelly.

Steve
I think the homozygotes should all be called supers for whatever the heterozygous animal is, because of mutations like the mojave, lesser, butter, yellowbelly, goblin, etc. If one guy is selling a BEL for $2,500 and another guy is selling a BEL for $2,800, people might thing they are getting a better deal with the cheaper one, not knowing that the cheaper one os a super mojave while the more expensive one is a super butter. If everything was labeled a heterozygous goblin or a homozygous goblin or super goblin, things would be easier for a lot of people, and it would reduce scams and misleading ads. If anyone tries selling a het for a co-dom and it looks normal, they are obviously lying. In general, people should know better than to buy a het for pastel or het for spider if the animal is obviously a wild type animal. Het means the animal carries one copy of the mutated gene. Doms and co-doms show that in the phenotype. Homozygous means the animal carries both copies of the gene. In recessives this is the visual, and in co-doms it's the super form. Anyone buying these animals to breed should already know this.