Any het red experts out there?

[twistedtails]

Well, Ralph got back to me and said it doesn't look quite like the het red lessers that he's hatched out, but there's definitely influence from the mother. Looks like this is a puzzle that will have to wait until he's ready to breed.

As a side note, the final tally for this clutch was 2.2 lessers, 1.0 normal, and an odd normal that may have been under developed due to a knotted umbilicus and didn't survive.

As Pat stated, I would talk to Corey Woods. He is the man when it comes to Het Reds. Keep in mind that Het Reds are just that, Het Red Axanthic. They are a codom and some can be very subtle. If you ask me, I think they are one of the codoms that can be the hardest to pick out sometimes. On the flip side, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say those look like some Het Reds that I have seen. The whole black back thing going on and the squiggly marks also. Keep us posted. I'm curious to see what the final verdict is.