Oops, got a little busy there. Delta (buf tessera) was paired up with Charlie (strawberry plasma het topaz phet amel) for a double clutch, and laid 13 nice looking eggs. Two clutches have hatched (though one baby is still chilling in its egg as I type).
Foxtrot x Akiri (peach hypo lavender x sunkissed) gave the following offspring:
1 motley het hypo orchid
2 normal het hypo orchid phet motley
4 hypo het orchid phet motley
This means we've proven that Fox is at least het motley, and Akiri is also het motley and hypo. I was hoping for lavender, but I'll take it!
I haven't tallied up the final morph count for Tango x Delta, but we got a surprising number that are amel as well as quite a few tesseras! Happy to see Delta's phet amel proved out. We will have to wait until the first shed to be able to determine which of the babies are carrying the buf gene. Until then, here's a cluster shot I took this morning.
This
could be the world's first masque habanero (cayenne amel buf) tessera!