Its funny you bring this up. Yes there are some slight visible signs that I and some other breeder's have noticed with clown hets. I had noticed this a few years ago from my own observations and talking with some other breeder's they had also noticed this. Some of the hets tends to thrown very light colored head patterns. I recently proved out a pastel het clown I had picked up from a breeder who sold her to me as a possible het. From talking to the breeder and from seeing pictures we both believed that she was 100% het clown. Well she produced 4 eggs for me this last season and out of the 4 egg's I hatch a pastel clown 1.1 petwer's 66% het clowns and a normal 66% het clown. Proving the female was 100% het clown as we thought. Well out of the 1.1 pewters the female also showed this light head coloring. I am working with the original breeder I purchased the mom from as I traded him this female pewter for another combo morph poss het clown. I am holding on to the rest of the clutch as I am not sure about the male pewter but the normal poss het has the same light head so she is being held back to see if I can prove her out as well. I will post a some pics to show what I mean. I am not saying that there is a het clown marker or this is 100% reliable but it is something I and some other breeder's are using to hold back poss het's.
pastel het clown mom
hatchlings pewter's
Can you figure out which pewter is the female from the pic???
Hope this helps and hope you can see what Im talking about, sorry for making it such a long post
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