I truly believe that these babies you produced are going to maintain that Candycane coloring when they are full grown.
I think that the yellow or orange in the head/neck area is usually an indicator that there will be more when they are bigger (not always of course).
I'm curious to know how some of the babies that Walter produced last year in his Miami Tessera X Candycane (like the first Amel on
this page on post #72) have turned out. I see the color on the head/neck area, and to me, that one will likely develop more color and be less of a Candycane, like your male, Candy Cane (who still has a Candycane look to the lower half of his body). *Just using Walter's thread as an example.
I see a bit of color on the head /neck of some of the Amel Tessera's as well. Some are pretty white, some have some coloring in there.
I'd love to see how they look now, to see if that color spread.
I imagine that there could be some coloring popping up, since the GrandSire to Walter's clutch was an Okeetee Tessera.
Look at the baby in post #88 on
this page compared to Aeetes.
Also, look at the Amel Tessera's in post #90 on the same page, the variable amount of color inside the white on the head/neck areas. I see none of that coloring on Circe, the female I got from you.
If you don't plan on it already, I'd do a repeat pairing of Big Moose and Petunia. (Or something similar, if you have a Miami het Amel you want to add into the project)
I do not recall any Candycane's being better than these.