Summit Pastel Boa Constrictors
Summit Pastel is one of the named pastel lines in boa constrictors, bred for a brighter, cleaner ground colour with less black in the pattern. How strongly it shows varies from snake to snake, so judge a Summit Pastel by its own photographs rather than the name.
About the Summit Pastel gene
Summit Pastel is one of several named pastel lines in the boa constrictor hobby. Keepers buy it for the cleaner look pastel breeding produces, and it often goes into multi-gene projects.
Appearance
Because a pastel-type boa constrictor has less black in its pattern than a normal, its markings sit on a brighter, cleaner ground colour. The amount of that shown varies between named lines and from animal to animal. How pastel a given snake looks is a judgement call, so judge a Summit Pastel by its own photographs, not the name on the listing.
Genetics
Listings use Summit Pastel for an animal of the line and Pos Summit Pastel for Summit stock whose status is not yet settled. Because Pastel in boas is generally line-bred, it is built by selecting cleaner animals over generations instead of being carried by one gene. The trade names no super form for Summit Pastel. This line is separate from Redrum Pastel, RC Pastel, Kubsch Pastel and Pastel Dream. It turns up in combination with Jungle and Salmon Hypo, among other genes.