I need help identifying this hatchling 
. Mum is Tsk Axanthic, Fire, pastel and dad is Desert ghost, Mojave, Leopard.
I can only assume that mum is actually black pastel and not pastel, she is quite dark too.
My assumption would be that this hatchling is
Mojave (because of the dorsal stripe)
Leopard (due to patern morph)
Black pastel (because of how black they are)
Pastel (due to lightness of stripe/alien heads)
Fire ( due to fire pattern on lower end of sides)
And then obvs het Tsk Axanthic and desert ghost
Looking on MorphMarket, anything with similar traits look nothing like what I’ve put above
Any help welcome
Thank you!
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Looks like a Mojave to me.
Mojave het TSK het DG. High quality looking Mojave. They’re beautiful when they have the darker color and reduced pattern.
If you can post a few pictures of them in natural light and stretched out so we can see the full pattern a bit better that might help, but honestly there’s no leopard pastel or Blk pastel in anything I’m seeing.
Blk pastel is very different from pastel so if you posted photos of the parents that would probably be best.
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I’ll send some different angles in the baby
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Agreeing with @armiyana that this little one is a nice little Mojave.
They tend to throw some of the best color contrast out of any of the other morphs I keep personally, especially if they are dark. Its actually one of the next projects I look forward to because of how nice they can potentially turn out.
Here’s my Mojave Calico for example, she practically glows under the right lighting and I’m super excited to produce some babies from her 
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I definitely see at minimum mojave, leopard, and pastel in your baby. Most mojave leopard pastels have significantly more pattern than that, so I agree there’s something darkening it up. Dad doesn’t look GHI or blackhead to me, but those would be the two genes I would guess. Are you sure this is the only male she has been paired with? It could be retained sperm.
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Mum appears to be TSK fire, no pastel. The shown picture of the sire, he looks pastel in addition to leopard and mojave.
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Okay those other two angles of the baby were definitely needed. I am seeing leopard and Mojave. I still don’t see pastel or fire myself though.
Here’s one of my own Mojaves I hatched from a high quality mojave pair, but she’s also Orange Ghost line of hypo. Similar circles, but lacking the more angled lines of the leopard influence in yours. She still has a more of a dark look compared to most Mojave hypos
This baby is from the same mom but vanilla Mojave het DG pos Orange Ghost. Some of the circles are still there, but more of the keyholed alien heads are in there.
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@armiyana this picture shows the pastel headstamp well. If the animal was just leopard and mojave the headstamp would be thinner and muuuuuch darker than that.
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It’s one of those weird ones where the pattern doesn’t quite match up with what the morphs are. I don’t want to say what I can’t reliably explain, the pastel look is really only in the fresh hatch shed, not the other two photos unless you are going just from the eye stripe. The head looks to be the same color as the body in the other two.
The body pattern also doesn’t really match the more wild pastel leopard look to me.
Absolutely can still be pastel but would be pretty poor quality compared to the strength on the Mojave expression. It’s definitely one I would personally shed test for verification it wasn’t het DG influence being weird.
I’ve been burned on pastel and fire before. Lol. My momma mojo was sold as a Mojave fire CG. She had the paler head as a baby and threw multiple babies with the ‘fire stamp’…and has proven to not have fire. XD;
Another I no longer own had the blushed head and some pretty bright colors but was just a really fancy ‘normal’.
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Definitely the only male, I grew her up from about 300g. I think she might hold some sort of darkening gene. Have other axanthics that are pastel too but she’s a lot darker than the rest. That’s why my initial thought was maybe they meant black pastel and not pastel
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I’m hoping to mix the Mojave in with and Axanthic DG project. Ultimately I prefer the leopard pattern to clown and wanted to see what a Tsk Axanthic, DG, Mojave, leopard, fire looked like. If this is the affect of just Mojave then I’m even more excited to see the contrast with hopefully some fire in coming clutches to give it a real dark black and bright white look. Thank you for the reply!
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Yeah I do want to do some shed testing, being in the UK it’s a bit harder to do with “shipping of animal parts” rules but I think I saw a new place that makes it a bit easier on clutch.io I’ve bought may het monsoons that need testing and the male above a few people have pointed out look to be pastel and not DG which I really want to verify before pairing him up anymore 
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I suspect this is a Leopard Mojave Pastel. Mojave is obvious. The enhanced darkness and dorsal striping point to the presence of Leopard. And the head blushing and crown horns would indicate the presence of Pastel, as does the blushing
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