Cinnamon Pastel Ball Python
One animal carrying both genes. Each one is inherited separately, so this combination is made by bringing them together rather than being a gene of its own.
Documented health finding on one of these genes
Cinnamon. Animals homozygous for this gene — Super Cinnamon — are widely reported in breeder records to show structural defects including kinked spines and shortened, misaligned jaws.
The two genes
- Pastel
- co-dominant
- Brighter yellows, faded pattern, and lighter head. Two copies give a paler animal still.
How one is made
Both genes have to come together in the same animal. The pairing that does it most directly is Cinnamon × Pastel, which works out every outcome and its odds.