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Funky Hatchling

Having recently become the owner of an amel and having bought a baby amel for a friend, I have a couple of questions. The one I bought for my friend was labeled as a red amel but it looked like an RO to me but what do I know??? Is there any way to tell the difference between amels and RO when they're really little???? AND ( are they always this sweet????)

Devon
 
As soon as I looked at the photo of the sibling, "hypo" popped into my mind. The first photo of the oddball had the wide saddle borders of a super RO, but the second photo confirms my initial thought...hypo. Probably, the eggs, especially the oddball, hatched at their earliest possible point and the colors just hadn't had the time to develop all the way yet, and with the oddball having such great saddle borders, it confused everyone. And I'm betting the mother isn't a normal, but a dark hypo instead.
 
Pal-O-Mine said:
Having recently become the owner of an amel and having bought a baby amel for a friend, I have a couple of questions. The one I bought for my friend was labeled as a red amel but it looked like an RO to me but what do I know??? Is there any way to tell the difference between amels and RO when they're really little???? AND ( are they always this sweet????)

Devon
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Reverse Okeetees ARE amels, just a selective bred variety that has wide saddle borders and, in the ideal case, a rich orange ground color to set them off. However, in more recent years, many ROs have some candycane amel (amels with rich saddle color and as white of a ground color as possible) influence and have lighter ground colors with the wide saddle borders.
 
I kind of thought sunrise mutant until that 2nd photo. I'm with Susan now, hypo.
 
Susan said:
As soon as I looked at the photo of the sibling, "hypo" popped into my mind. The first photo of the oddball had the wide saddle borders of a super RO, but the second photo confirms my initial thought...hypo. Probably, the eggs, especially the oddball, hatched at their earliest possible point and the colors just hadn't had the time to develop all the way yet, and with the oddball having such great saddle borders, it confused everyone. And I'm betting the mother isn't a normal, but a dark hypo instead.
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I have no idea what she is, she's not even mine. =P but thats pretty cool, if these are hypo babies. Would explain my confusion over the little buggers. The didnt look normal, and they didnt look quite amel either, but closer to amel.
 
score 1 for the "normals" you never quite know what you've got in there, sometimes it is a really pleasant surprise! HAH :D
 
I hope the pattern is heritable, even if just the same way that a pair of aztecs are somewhat more likely to produce aztecs, etc.
 
Shiari said:
I hope the pattern is heritable, even if just the same way that a pair of aztecs are somewhat more likely to produce aztecs, etc.
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I have no idea. Would be fun to find out tho. All his/her siblings looked pretty normal, and as far as I know the parents werent anything wacky either.
 
Have the sibs colored up too like this one? Are there any that are *actually* amels? Just curious if he has any already potentially known pos. hets in play.
 
I guess they really are hypos. My mistake. ^^; Hypo never crossed my mind when they hatched, I just assumed they were amels when I saw them pipping. *shrug* oh well. I only have two siblings of this one left, the rest went back to the owner of the parents.

They are coloring up the same more or less, other than Oddball's.. oddball-ness. S/He is more reddish and has interestingly patterned sides as well as the back.

Just took these today, of Oddball and a sibling. the other sibling I have looks exactly the same as this one.
 

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Pretty Nautley. :3 S/He is going to stand out like a sore thumb in my collection, both in pattern and in color.
 
a lot of baby hypos look just like amels when the pop out of the egg. The color has slightly different tone to it. Most are fooled into thinking that they are amels when they are realy hypos .
This one fooled me at first in to thinking it was a amel.

goold luck with it Shiari, take some pics and post them up as it develops.
 
I thought amel in the first pics as well, but the darker color in the white area made me wonder.. They are pretty little hypos.. :)
 
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