Pastel ball pythons are marked by high yellow and sometimes orange coloration. The brown tones in pastels are often absent. The dark areas of pattern are often highlighted by blushing spots where the dark pigment appears faded. Pastel ball pythons also show a patternless belly and light eyes. The pastel trait is a co-dominant one. This means that when a pastel is bred to a normal ball python, half of the offspring should show the pastel trait in the first generation. If two pastels are bred, it is possible to produce a super pastel.

Pastels are a great morph to work with because you can see results in the first generation of offspring. Choose your founding stock wisely; you want to produce nice clean pastels.

I produced hypomelanistic pasteIs in 2004 - they are STUNNING!!!!! A hypomelanistic super pastel is going to be an awesome snake. I plan on mixing the pastel mutation with brown backs, caramels, piebalds, axanthics and spiders.