Pastel

What Pastel looks like

Lighter, brighter colors

One of the most widely used morphs in ball python breeding. Heterozygous (Pastel) produces enhanced yellow coloration, reduced dark pigment, and lighter overall appearance with "blushing" (faded head color). Homozygous (Super Pastel) is dramatically lighter with intense yellow and minimal dark pigment, often with a mostly white head. Pastel is the most common building-block gene used in designer morph combos.

How to identify it: Pastel (het): enhanced yellows, reduced dark pigment, lighter head with blushing, green/hazel eyes. Super Pastel: extremely light, intense yellow, mostly white head, very reduced dark pigment.

How Pastel is inherited

Pastel follows a incomplete dominant inheritance pattern, carried on the Pastel allele (locus Pastel).

Combo morphs with Pastel

• Bee

  Pastel + Spider combination. Also known as Bumble Bee.

• Killer Bee

  Super Pastel + Spider combination.

• Pewter

  Pastel + Cinnamon combination.

• Firefly

  Fire + Pastel combination.

• Lemonblast

  Pastel + Pinstripe combination.

• Pastel Ghost

  Pastel + Ghost combination.