Is this Masque

I produced a male anery that is not like any that I have seen. The mom is possible het blood but not proven. None of the other siblings came out with this type of head pattern or faded/light ground color. I guess that I could breed him back to mom and find out if this is truly masque, or just some of the blood het showing up. No matter what I think that I will be keeping this little guy. Thanks for the input.

I would say yes. I'd like to see a normal sibling and head shots of the parents.

Yeah man. I have quite a few animals that, to my knowledge, have no diffused in them, but they still show masque is some form or another.

I will get better pics of mom, and dad, but I have decent pics of siblings.
The snows looked like this.

the normals looked tike this.

Dads pic.

Moms picture, not a real good shot at the head pattern. I'll post a better picture once I get my camera back.

This is what the amel hatchlings looked like. I didn't get any other anerys from this mating. Again thanks for the input.

I used to see that look quite often in my Silver Queen line.

Originally Posted by JohnnyC

I produced a male anery that is not like any that I have seen. The mom is possible het blood but not proven. None of the other siblings came out with this type of head pattern or faded/light ground color. I guess that I could breed him back to mom and find out if this is truly masque, or just some of the blood het showing up. No matter what I think that I will be keeping this little guy. Thanks for the input.

What exactly is Masque? I don't think I've come across that term before.

I was able to get some pictures of her today and she does have some fading on her head patter as well. I bought and read the 2010 morph guide a while ago and skimmed through that section, but I had thought that it is just the blood het coming out. I am not so sure and I would like to know if this could be a recessive trait. Anyways he has his moms looks and his dads personality, so he is really laid back and eats everything thrown at him. Again thanks for your thoughts.

definetly masque. I hope my girl produces a clutch next year with some masque babies

I don't think you will find it a very predictable trait to work with. At least not initially. I would suggest pursuing this by breeding them into Blood Reds, and also Sunkisseds.

There are others where this trait will crop up, but I never really found it to produce results I could count on, so I didn't pursue the projects.

Perhaps planning on working on this for a couple of generations will produce better results than I was able to come up with, however.