Thoughts on this youngster?

twistedtails · July 11, 2021, 12:53pm

Hello! I picked this boy up a while back as a normal pastel from a local reptile shop that deals in a lot of wholesale and can tell he is holding some other genes. I figured I would get some input. What do you think he may be? I’ve hatched many pastels in the past and never seen something like him yet. Let me know what you all think.

saleengrinch · July 11, 2021, 1:05pm

Firefly!!!

steelserpents · July 11, 2021, 1:06pm

Super pastel calico yb is what it looks like to me… but proving it out by breeding is the only way to really know

saleengrinch · July 11, 2021, 1:09pm

Curious where you are seeing that? Would be extremely low expression. Can definitely see why yellowbelly would be a guess. The head isn’t washed out enough for me for super pastel. But the tones of the yellow and the head tell me there is a black eyed Lucy gene.For sure more than pastel In my opinion.

garciademueller · July 11, 2021, 1:47pm

Pastel leopard for sure

garciademueller · July 11, 2021, 1:48pm

either that or pastel yellowbelly

twistedtails · July 11, 2021, 1:50pm

I could see why he would say calico. That’s what I thought originally was in it. There is a lot of white scales on him. Also, the ringer or destruction of pattern towards the tail. I know that breeding it out is going to be the only way to tell, but, I just figured I would get input to see what others thought. I wouldn’t be too surprised if there’s more than two genes in him.

twistedtails · July 11, 2021, 1:54pm

If you take away the rest of the snake and look at this I would say pastel calico.

saleengrinch · July 11, 2021, 1:59pm

I’m not seeing it but calico is definitely not my expertise. But I have hatched calico. No doubt though you have way more than pastel lol.

twistedtails · July 11, 2021, 2:04pm

Yeah it’ll be fun to breed out for sure. I think I’ll breed it to all kinds of other stuff to make it more confusing…SMH!

saleengrinch · July 11, 2021, 2:04pm

Makes perfect sense lol

steelserpents · July 11, 2021, 2:57pm

I was going based off the pattern and the elevation of white up the belly… more than I would expect from just yellowbelly. I agree it could be firefly instead of super pastel though… the head is just more blushed than I would expect for pastel.

afonsotelles · July 11, 2021, 8:37pm

Could be vanilla?

twistedtails · July 12, 2021, 5:35pm

Sounds plausible for sure

eaglereptiles · July 12, 2021, 5:52pm

I’m going with Firefly Yellowbelly here.

I want to say it looks like a Pastel Paint but I don’t just want to throw more names into the mix.

ghoulishcresties · July 12, 2021, 7:29pm

I’d also say firefly.
We used to have a firefly blaze and the patterning looks identical.