Hi guys. I bought this girl last year from an online vendor and picked her up at a show. She was purchased as an "enchi het pied", but when I posted pictures it was immediately pointed out that she's not an enchi, but a pastel. I always thought she looked a little different than most pastels, but I shrugged it off as individual variation within the morph up until now.


Earlier this year I bought a yellowbelly male, and one day while handling him I noticed that his headstamp looks a lot like hers. Here's a headshot of him for comparison:



The male was from a different source, so they're probably unrelated, but they both have that light spot in the enter of the head. The contrast in her pattern looks yellowbelly-ish to me and she hasn't browned out as much as most pastels. She's a 2015 girl, getting close to 1500g. The plan is to breed her to my enchi pied male out of pure spite to prove the guy who sold her to me wrong (he never stopped insisting she's an enchi), but if she's also yellowbelly I might have an extra gene on my hands.

Here are a few more older pics to help you get a better sence of what she looks like. Unfortunately the lighting in my room isn't great, so most of my photos of her are either too dark, or I used flash.

Obvious flash photo from January.


No flash, in her tub by the window. Earlier this month.


So what do you think? I'm pretty convinced she's yellowbelly, but I'm no expert. Let me know if I'm off base.