Fire or Vanilla? Opinions please!

As some of you might know, I purchased this 2012 male fire and he arrived one week ago. Upon receiving him I noticed that is feed card said he was from a Vanilla x Pastel pairing. I immediately contacted the breeder and asked about that. He then said that he had put both a fire and a vanilla boy in with the pastel female. He says he can identify a fire from a vanilla and he says this boy is a fire.

You can see why I have my doubts though...

The boy shed last night so I snapped a few pics today (light tent, no editing). I did my best but he does NOT want to do anything other than stay curled up. He is around 300 grams.

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Any and all input appreciated!

Fire! And a freaking amazing one at that :D

I want to say fire. But I'm not that familiar IDing Vanillas though...

I vote fire!

Fire. Great selection of pics for us to look at!

He's really beautiful regardless. I am just getting into fires myself. I can't find many belly pics but I thought that fires had more checkering similar to a YB. His belly is really clean. I will leave it to those with more experience to say definitively one way or the other but I hope he proves to be a Fire for you. Now please quit hogging all the best examples of morphs. I am still using your pied as the standard for all pieds.

Wow that is a GREAT looking Fire! Fires and Vanillas are hard for me to tell apart as well unless I see 2 of them side by side but that really screams Fire.....lovely example of the morph! Congrats!

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My fire also has a clear belly, but he is het pied. ;)

I would say fire after seeing these new pics...

Holy crap he's GORGEOUS! A dream of a fire imo.