Enchi Male? Very Little Reduced Patterning...

Dad looks 100% normal to me.....I dunno yours looks like he could be a low grade enchi but after seeing that photo of the sire, I dunno.....

Those pictures are awful. I stand by my statement to grow him a little and ask again later.

I think it is a low quality enchi based on the first two pictures...they do show on the back half of his body some of the reduced pattern a little bit that enchi's tend to have (granted that normals can be that exact same way) but I'm also seeing some of the orange coloring in the bottom half of his sides that enchi does...based on those two things together I think he's most likely an enchi. Seeing how he looks as he grows a little and how much of that orange color stays should help tell you if he's an enchi or a normal with some reduced pattern on parts of him.

I see plenty of Enchi's here that look like him. It's one reason I'm still shopping for mine. Yes he's an Enchi. I have no doubt. He's got the right coloring and the right blushing to be one.

That being said. My ideal Enchi has the deep golden orange coloring, the reddish brown blushing like yours does, BUT my ideal Enchi, busy pattern or reduced, must have as many bands across the back as possible. To me, that just says ENCHI! This one is more... eh it's an enchi.

But it is an Enchi, I am sure of that.

Gale

Looks like an enchi to me. Not the best example though.

I think it s an enchi too

they do get lighter with a few sheds if it's an enchi, but the banding is what makes enchi, enchi.