Black Pastel Ball python

Co-dominant (incomplete dominant) morph

Inheritance
Co-dominant (incomplete dominant)
Super form
Super Black Pastel
Allelic with
Cinnamon
Also called
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How Black Pastel is inherited

Black Pastel is co-dominant: one copy produces a visual Black Pastel, and two copies produce the Super Black Pastel. Breeding a Black Pastel to a normal gives about 50% Black Pastel babies.

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Black Pastel is allelic with Cinnamon: they sit at the same spot on the chromosome, so an animal can carry at most two of them, and pairing them produces combination morphs.

Commonly treated as allelic with Cinnamon.

Health notes

⚠️ Supers are prone to kinks and a "duckbill" head shape.

Breeding outcomes

Odds per egg. Try your own pairing in the genetics calculator.

Black Pastel × Normal

  • 50%Black Pastel
  • 50%Normal

Black Pastel × Black Pastel

  • 50%Black Pastel
  • 25%Normal
  • 25%Super Black Pastel

Super Black Pastel × Normal

  • 100%Black Pastel

Black Pastel × Cinnamon

  • 25%Black Pastel
  • 25%Black Pastel Cinnamon
  • 25%Cinnamon
  • 25%Normal
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