Possible retained sperm making me crazy..
Hello folks, this is my first post. I have actually attempted to start others before but since I couldn't quite see how to post pics, I gave up. That, by the way, was regarding Morph identification. But that's way off topic. Anyway... Now I have a question I'm afraid I know the answer to. But I thought I might get someone to tell me what I want to hear...
Last year, around the summertime, someone I met had a small BP collection that they needed to find a new home for, as they were moving immediately. Now, I love these situations... Almost as much as I love "Baby on the way and wife needs BP room for nursery". Now that's the best.
Again I digress... So anyway, they ended up giving me miscellaneous young morphs, mostly single and double gene stuff that I had zero use for but I happily fed and sold them cheaply. But they also gave me three adult females that I definitely wanted; a proven pewter, and a proven fire genetic blackback. Also I Firefly that had not been bred, despite being 2000 grams or more (maxing out my 2000 gram scale at the time). Now there's reasons I mention all three... They claim to have NOT paired any of them that year (2016). And that the two proven ones laid good clutches the year before (2015). Sorry for the over-clarification/redundancy... I assumed the firefly was just not up to size in 2015. So a few things support the claim that they didn't pair them. One, I paired my lesser Huffman male with the pewter, and she laid in August. They actually were only together about a month, then she ovulated. So she did produce one pastel Huffman. I also put my pastel clown with both the fire blackback and the firefly. Well the fire blackback also ovulated and laid after only a few months with the clown. I have exact dates. Just not handy. So... After this very long and fascinating setup, here's what happens that I need help with: the clutch from the pastel clown x fire GBB produced five eggs. All hatched. I got three fireflies and two pastels. If I posted a picture this is clear as day. So I'm elated to have all these lovely 100% het clowns and some are genetic blackback I think (another very tricky topic)... Then it hit me. All five carry pastel, two of which are fire pastel. Not one normal or fire. So either I got a very lucky clutch... Or, she was still retaining sperm that MUST have been from some combination of super pastel. Of course the original owners are long gone. If I knew what she was paired with the year before, I would assume they would say a super pastel. Why I don't know. So my actual question is. Would anyone believe these are het Clown? There's no way I can sell them as het or even possible het... There's no category on Morph Market for "Highly Unlikely Het". Man I wrote a novel.