My original male pastel tends to produce some pretty interesting normals and super bright pastels. The normals are normally brighter than your regular normals and have a pretty decent banding pattern with light spots on the head. The first pic is of 2 females that are being bred back to my original male pastel with an 08 male to show how similar they look.

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u217/Luke98115/Photo_010609_001.jpg

And this shows some of the pastels that he's produced as well as the normals. Of course the cell phone pics don't show the color all that great but if you saw them in person you'd know what I'm saying. He's still really bright at 6 years old but he was in shed so I didn't put him in with these. The pastels are really bright...don't seem to inherit the banding too much but its crazy how bright some of them are especially the one in the middle.

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u217/Luke98115/Photo_010609_002.jpg

I'm not saying its anything crazy or proven genetic yet which is why I really haven't talked about it much but I'm hoping these few girls take for me and I can prove something out! I'm trying to get a new camera but money seems to disappear too quick around here!

Looks like a very cool prject! Hope it proves out for you!

I love the patterns on the females, And the pastels have a unique pattern also. Does the male have the same pattern as the normal looking ones or the busy pattern like those 2 awesome pastels?

Here's a pic of dad from about a year ago...

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u217/Luke98115/467.jpg

That would be cool if breeding him to those girls refines that pattern even more, interesting dinker for sure :cheers:

Very nice project.

Here's a pic of dad from about a year ago...

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u217/Luke98115/467.jpg

Luke, Do you know if he was from a pastel x spider breeding? Just curious.

Cool project. Good luck with it.

Very cool project!! Keep us posted on your progress..

Alan

Cool project :yessir:

nice we all love our dinkers

very nice good luck

Jas considering the first spider hasn't been around for 6 years...I think its safe to say he's not from a pastel x spider breeding ;)

Jas considering the first spider hasn't been around for 6 years...I think its safe to say he's not from a pastel x spider breeding ;)

Spiders were proven in 1999 so they have been around for more than six years. I thought you were better with the snakes than you were with picking up women......:lol:

Spiders were proven in 1999 so they have been around for more than six years. I thought you were better with the snakes than you were with picking up women......:lol:

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Haha well that was when they were 30k and not everyone had them! And you know you had to look up what year they were proven in!

What exactly is a dink, regards ball pythons? I see the word used often amongst ball python peeps.

Its just a different looking snake that we hope may be genetically different and reproducible.