Het Pastel?

[AGActaeonia]

If a Super Hypo Pastel were paired with a normal phase, would it be possible to produce offspring that are both Pastels and Hets?

According to a user from another forum, unless both parents are Pastel, this is impossible.

I ask because I came across a pair, two young females, one a Super Hypo, the other a normal-phase with a severe overabundance of pink along the sides.

The gentleman selling them said they were related, that the mother was a S.H.P and the father a norm.

That other user, though... I'm not a breeder, know next to nothing concerning such things, but I'm afraid I don't see why no hets could be gotten from such a pairing along with 100% viable Pastels as well.

Any input?

[Smtie]

As far as i know "pastels" aren't a recessive trait, or even a mutation really. In boas, pastels are basically selective breeding. So there are no hets, I do believe if you breed a pastel to a normal you could end up with some of the litter showing pastel traits, all a matter of chance really. I think...not sure, that you can get a pastel from a normal to normal pairing. < I'm sure someone will correct me on this if I'm wrong.


Matt

	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

[Ranger]

Smtie nailed it. A selective breeding issue.

[BlackLava]

yep, and everyone also has a different definition of what a pastel boa is, so what may appear to be a pastel to you, would not be a pastel to someone else. but no, you dont need two pastel parents to have pastel offspring.

[BlackLava]

oh, i forgot to add, there is no such thing as a het pastel, either its pastel or its not

	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

[AGActaeonia]

Thank you guys.

Much more definitive than the last user. No one responded to the thread save her, and she doused and lit me aflame for repeating what the guy who was selling them told me.

[KyleZ]

Originally Posted by AGActaeonia

Thank you guys.
Much more definitive than the last user. No one responded to the thread save her, and she doused and lit me aflame for repeating what the guy who was selling them told me.

Friggin' Shenanigans, brother. So much of the world o'snakes spins on the shenanigans, unfortunately.

[AGActaeonia]

Originally Posted by KyleZ

Friggin' Shenanigans, brother. So much of the world o'snakes spins on the shenanigans, unfortunately.

"Word."