Variation or did I make an ID mistake?

[Tila]

When they first hatched, I called them both cinnabees, but as they are growing I'm noticing differences that are making me wonder if I've made a mistake. I will refer to the snakes as "Head Stamp" and "No Head Stamp" for ease of telling them apart. Here are the differences I noticed between them:
Head Stamp: has a head stamp, has a speckled belly, has alien heads with eyes, very little if any side pattern white, and brown that bleeds into the dorsal stripe.

Are they both Cinnabees or did I make a mistake? Pairing was a pewterbee to a lesser or a black pastel.

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[Tila]

Any guesses?

[Lord Sorril]

Any guesses?

I'm with you on 2 Cinnabee's.
One looks like the pattern is reduced.

[Tila]

I'm with you on 2 Cinnabee's.
One looks like the pattern is reduced.

If you were to keep one, which would you choose? I'm leaning toward the reduced, but 2 look like that and Head Stamp is the only one like that so I'm worried I'm choosing the wrong one.

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[Lord Sorril]

If you were to keep one, which would you choose?

That would depend on the next morph target for the breeding project:
If the morph I'm trying to produce is going to be obvious-I would use the Reduced Pattern one to keep it clean.
If the morph is going to be a bit messy: I would use the one with the obvious head stamp (to increase the ease of offspring ID).

[Ax01]

i think it's variation. also more likely the Black Pastel is the dad and the clean, reduced one is a Cinnabee and the other one is a Black Bee. Black Pastels tend to be a lil busier than their allelic Cinny counterparts.

[Tila]

i think it's variation. also more likely the Black Pastel is the dad and the clean, reduced one is a Cinnabee and the other one is a Black Bee. Black Pastels tend to be a lil busier than their allelic Cinny counterparts.

I was wondering about the dad situation. All 3 cinna/black bees have a really strong dorsal stripe and it seems as though in the black bee pictures I've seen, the snakes had reduced dorsal patterning altogether so I didn't know if that meant Head Stamp couldn't be a possible black bee.

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