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[mike h]

hi
Please answer the following.
If you breed a visual pastel to a normal. WILL the offspring which look normal be Het for pastel, or be normals.

thanks mike

[Kate]

Pastel is a co-dominant gene. That is, in heterozygous form you get pastels, and in homozygous form you get super pastels.

If you breed a pastel to a normal the odds are that you will have 50% of the offspring being pastels, the others being normal - if the law of odds works for you on the day!

[mike h]

hi and thanks
so I am right in saying that if the snake looks normal even though it was from a pastel normal pairing (the normal looking offspring) will not carry the pastel gene??
Only asking because someone is selling normals as het pastel from a pastel/normal pairing.???
Phew
thanks
miek

[RoyalCrazy]

[mike h]

thanks
below is on the website
http://www.viperandvine.com/id1.html

CB05 Royal Pythons: Het. Pastel.
JAPANESE IMPORTS

£95

I have been to the shop and everything appears to be spot on. Easily the best reptile shop I have visited in person. they probably just (like me before asking )dont understand how the genetics for pastels work.
Glad I asked my credit card was nearly out at £95 a throw. thought it was to good to be true. Still sure to be lovely snakes.
thanks
mike

[Kate]

I'd probably go with ignorance then rather than trying to pull the wool over your eyes!

Might be worth asking if it was a typo or something?

[mike h]

Hi
Can a normal looking pastel carry a simple recessive gene for pastel??
Or is the animal from normal to pastel breeding one or the other.
see below for why.


CB05 Royal Pythons: Het. Pastel.
JAPANESE IMPORTS
SIMPLE RECESSIVE GENE
SHOTO BLOODLINE

thanks
mike